In response to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) ‘Save Cruelty-free Cosmetics’, the Commission has outlined a roadmap to help further reduce animal testing, but activists say it’s not good enough.
OEGSTGEEST, the Netherlands, March 16, 2022 / B3C newswire / Toxys BV, a Dutch biotech company that offers a broad spectrum of innovative in vitro toxicology solutions for the safety assessment of novel medicines, (agro)chemicals, cosmetics, and food ingredients, today announces the opening of a sales office in N.
The beauty industry continues to be stuck between conflicting requirements on animal testing, with bans under the EU Cosmetics Regulation and new data calls under the European Chemical Agency’s (ECHA) REACH Regulation, and the scientific community is frustrated, say executives from Unilever’s Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC).
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published advice on how industry can reliably combine non-animal data from different sources to assess skin sensitisation of chemicals in the EU, using the new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) guideline.