CIR Panel Looks To Establish Guidelines For Read-Across Use
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Executive Summary
At its December meeting in Washington, the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel finalized safety assessments for eight ingredients and advanced three other reports. In its reviews, the group made selective use of read-across data while agreeing to discuss protocol for employing the predictive approach in future reviews.
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