CHINA NON-ANIMAL TEST APPROVED SAYS DISEASE PREVENTION CENTRE
December 1st, 2012 BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI Chinese officials have accepted the country's first-ever non-animal testing method for cosmetics phototoxicity, or skin irritation, Yang Xingfen, the director of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of Guangdong Province has confirmed. "We filed the alternative test method...to the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) for approval," she said. The test is called 3T3 neutral red uptake phototoxicity assay (3T3), an 'in vitro' technology to replace the traditional test on animal skin. The centre is also ...
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