Posts tagged alternative testing strategies
US Cosmetic Law reform provides more oversight powers for FDA and removes requirements for animal testing
US Cosmetic Law reform provides more oversight powers for FDA and removes requirements for animal testing

The US Congress has passed the first update since 1938 to the federal law regulating personal care products. The FDA will now have some of the same oversight powers for cosmetics that it has for other product categories, and requirements for animal testing on cosmetic products are removed.

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Alternate Testing, Regulation, SafetyFiona CaseFDA, cosmetics, animal testing, USA, alternative testing strategies
Vireo Publishes "Characterization of a Human In Vitro Intestinal Model for the Hazard Assessment of Nanomaterials Used in Cancer Immunotherapy"
Vireo Publishes "Characterization of a Human In Vitro Intestinal Model for the Hazard Assessment of Nanomaterials Used in Cancer Immunotherapy"

Vireo, and our co-authors at Baylor University, have published a study advancing the use of alternative testing strategies for nanomaterial safety assessments.

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Alternate Testing, Leadership, Nanomaterials, Safety, Nanotechnology, Risk AnalysisJames EdeVireo Advisors, Baylor University, alternative testing strategies, nanomaterial safety assessments, in vitro, cell-based intestinal model, nanomaterial, nanomaterial hazard assessment, animal testingComment
A Robust Cell-based Model Useful for Predicting Potential Adverse Effects on the Lung Following Nanomaterial Inhalation
A Robust Cell-based Model Useful for Predicting Potential Adverse Effects on the Lung Following Nanomaterial Inhalation

Recent efforts are aiming to promote the use and adoption of Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) to demonstrate the safety of advanced materials and technologies such as nanomaterials.

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Alternate Testing, Nanomaterials, SafetyJames EdeAOPs, Cell-based Model, nanomaterial inhalation, safety, EpiAlveolar, occupational routes of exposure, Chronic animal inhalation studies, sub-chronic animal inhalation studies, animal-testing, Adverse Outcome Pathways, toxicology frameworks, key biological events, fibrosis, multiwalled carbon nanotubes, alternative testing strategies, nanomaterialComment
EPA Announces Plan to Reduce Animal Testing
EPA Announces Plan to Reduce Animal Testing

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this month that they will provide $4.25 million in funding to five universities to research the development and use of alternative test methods and strategies with the goal of reducing, replacing, or refining animal testing in the U.S.

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Alternate Testing, Policy, RegulationJames EdeEnvironmental Protection Agency, EPA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alternative test methods, reducing, replacing, alternative testing strategiesComment