The group Antidote Europe has submitted a non-animal test method to the EU authorities that would carefully screen any chemical before it could be put on the market. A proposal for the adoption of a sophisticated non-animal test method has been submitted to ECVAM (1) and the OECD (2), the EU bodies largely responsible for evaluating new test methods…. Read more
A recent report published by the US National Research Council (NRC) acknowledges the importance of using biological material of human origin, in conjunction with the modern science of toxicogenomics. Antidote Europe sees this as a positive development. The US National Research Council (NRC) recently published a report entitled “Toxicity testing in the Twenty-first century: a vision… Read more
Test results obtained by Antidote Europe based on the toxicogenomic evaluation of 22 chemical substances are now registered on an international database, which is a very positive sign indeed. Results of a study by Antidote Europe on harmful chemicals have now been registered on an official website. Twenty-two of the 28 substances tested, among them ingredients… Read more
At its coming into force, the European REACH regulation on chemical substances implies toxicity tests of which the reliability has never been proved, qualified of “simply bad science” by a scientific responsible of the European Commission and longer and more expensive than modern and reliable tests already available. The European REACH regulations on chemical substances came into force last… Read more
