NIA took part in the first meeting of a newly launched ECHA platform focused on advancing alternatives to animal testing in chemical safety assessments.
NIA joins ECHA's new platform on alternatives to animal testing
NIA Staff
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Summary
NIA's Director of Regulatory Affairs attended the inaugural meeting of ECHA's newly formed Collaborative Platform of Alternatives to Animal Testing (CP-AAT), a group set up to support the European Commission's roadmap for phasing out animal testing in chemical safety assessments. The platform brings together EU Member States, the European Commission, EU agencies, industry, academia and public-private partnerships to speed up regulatory acceptance of non-animal methods.
What the group agreed on
At the first meeting, participants mapped out current European initiatives on animal-testing alternatives and settled on four priorities for the platform's first two-year work programme:
Promoting regulatory use of quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSARs) and other in silico methods
Advancing harmonised approaches for in vitro toxicokinetics
Supporting regulatory application of omics technologies
Developing New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for nano- and advanced materials, with a focus on making non-animal methods work for the specific properties of these materials so they can be built into chemical safety assessments
