NIA takes part in ECHA's first meeting on animal-testing alternatives

NIA's Director of Regulatory Affairs sat in on the inaugural meeting of ECHA's Collaborative Platform of Alternatives to Animal Testing (CP-AAT), a new group backing the European Commission's push to phase out animal testing in chemical safety assessments. The platform draws in EU Member States, the Commission, EU agencies, industry, academia and public-private partnerships, all working to speed up regulatory acceptance of non-animal methods. Members used the first session to map existing European work in this space and settle on four priorities for the coming two years, and the group will meet twice yearly going forward to keep initiatives coordinated and avoid duplicated effort. NIA members can request more detail on the projects under discussion.