Around 100 new or updated animal-free test methods for the regulatory safety testing of chemical substances under the EU’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation (1907/2006/EC) were adopted by the European Commission on Friday 3 March.
The majority of newly approved toxicity test methods are New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) which do not involve animals.
Under the new rules (Commission Regulation amending, for the purposes of its...