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REACH CLP BPR ECHA’s workshop opens way for animal testing-free chemicals regulation: 01/06/2023; Over 500 participants joined ECHA’s workshop on new approach methodologies (NAM) to discuss ways to replace animal testing in the hazard assessment of industrial chemicals, whilst ensuring a high level of protection of human health and the environment.

REACH ECHA sees broad use of alternatives for chemical safety assessment: 30/05/2023; The fifth report on the use of alternatives to testing on animals for the REACH Regulation shows that adaptations continue to be used more than experimental studies, with read-across being the most frequent option. In vitro non-animal test methods have seen a significant uptake in recent years.

REACH CLP EFPIA and ECHA publish more data to help developing alternative methods to animal tests: 17/05/2023; Additional information about the hazard properties of 75 substances from 370 tests has recently been published as IUCLID datasets. This more than doubles the amount of data that was made initially available for the scientific community developing alternative test methods when the joint initiative kicked off a year ago.