ECVAM Conducting Studies On Alternatives To Animal Eye Test
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The European Centre for Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) will be conducting several studies on reference chemicals in late 1998 as one step in resolving the "impasse" in replacing the Draize animal eye irritation test with an in vitro alternative, Manfred Liebsch, PhD, deputy head of Germany's Centre for Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to Animal Testing (ZEBET), said.