OECD Alternative Methods To Replace Existing Animal Test
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the international group charged with finding alternatives to animal tests, plans to eliminate animal test TG 401 and replace it with a revised Up-and-Down Procedure (TG 425) and two other testing methods in July, the National Toxicology Program Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods said Nov. 28.
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