The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA), whose vision is the replacement, reduction and refinement (3Rs) of animal use for meeting regulatory requirements through better and more predictive science, has successfully completed its second five-year term. The EPAA partners want to build on the experience acquired during this past 10-year period and on the achievements to date in order to further progress their unique collaboration on 3Rs approaches.
The partners include 5 Directorates-General of the European Commission, and 35 companies from the chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, soaps and detergents, crop protection, animal health and fragrances sectors, including their European trade federations.
Within the EPAA, industry and the European Commission have developed a wide range of actions, notably in the areas of data sharing, promoting innovative thinking on toxicology testing without animals, streamlining procedures allowing alternative approaches to be used, and challenging established methods involving the use of animals to meet regulatory requirements.
Read more here:
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=8087
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/epaa/index_en.htm
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Tuesday, 17 February 2015 15:58
EPAA will continue its work on alternatives to animal use for another 5 years Featured
The European Commission and 35 blue-chip companies from 7 industry sectors have agreed to continue collaborating for another 5-year term in a partnership that aims at promoting alternative approaches to animal testing.
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Menschen für Tierrechte - Tierversuchsgegner Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.