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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13134

4 March 2023
SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment
REACH, European Commission adopts regulation to speed up adoption of animal-free testing methods
Brussels, 03/03/2023 (Agence Europe)

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...

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