USA AND EU COOPERATE TO DEVELOP NEW ANIMAL TEST ALTERNATIVES
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN and European Union (EU) scientists will intensify joint development of alternative cosmetics tests that replace experiments using animals. A United States-European Union summit in Slovenia agreed the US Food and Drug Administration and European Commission would "further their cooperation in the peer review of unvalidated alternative methods" (including products considered medicines in America and cosmetics in the EU).
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AMERICAN and European Union (EU) scientists will intensify joint development of alternative cosmetics tests that replace experiments using animals. A United States-European Union summit in Slovenia agreed the US Food and Drug Administration and European Commission would "further their cooperation in the peer review of unvalidated alternative methods" (including products considered medicines in America and cosmetics in the EU).
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