As of 28 November 2011, Novo Nordisk will no longer use living animals to test the quality of the batches of medicine coming out of Novo Nordisk’s production lines. These tests have for years been required by health authorities as part of their approval of the products.
http://www.novonordisk.com/press/sea/
The final phase of European law designed to eradicate testing on animals of chemicals used in the cosmetics industry is set to be delayed for as long as four years because it is thought that alternative ways of testing the safety of ingredients' will not be ready in time: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/
dec/31/animal-testing-cosmetics-industry-europe
IVTIP member company Epithelix has been awarded the 2011 trophy for innovation of the Swiss and French Commercial and Industrial Chamber.
http://www.epithelix.com/content/view/110/2/
Epithelix aims to develop the most relevant respiratory in vitro products and services for your research.
New text European Directive accepted!!
Epithelix has been awarded the Geneva young industry price 2010. (http://www.opi.ch/Office/Prixdelrsquoindustrie/tabid/58/Default.aspx)
Epithelix aims to develop the most relevant respiratory in vitro products and services for your research.
Research Project for Alternative Testing
We are happy to present the latest news from the ACuteTox project, which was finalized in June 2010
ACuteTox is an integrated project funded by the EU 6FP, with the aim to develop and pre-validate a simple and robust test strategy based on in vitro and computer models for the prediction of human acute oral systemic toxicity and classification of chemicals into the different EU and GHS toxicity classes.
Potential assays for the test strategy were selected and have now been pre-validated.
- newsletter April 2010
- newsletter October 2010
IVTIP and REACH' an article of IVTIP's chairman about REACH and industry as gathered in IVTIP www.im.microbios.org - International Microbiology (Corresponding authors) Number 8 (1)
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