NICEATM Wants Data To Evaluate In Vitro Tests For Nonsevere Ocular Irritants
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The National Toxicology Program's Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) is soliciting ocular irritation test data from human, rabbit and in vitro studies to expand its ocular toxicity database and assess the efficacy of four in vitro test methods in identifying nonsevere ocular irritants
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