Cosmetics Europe Reflects On WC10, Alternative Testing Landscape
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Conversation at the 10th World Congress on Alternatives and Animals in the Life Sciences shifted from questions of how alternative test data can be generated to what existing data mean from a systemic biology standpoint and how they might be applied in chemical safety assessments. Cosmetics Europe's Rob Taalman discusses.
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