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Nature 438, 144-146 (10 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438144a; Published online 9 November 2005
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- Alison Abbott is Nature's senior European correspondent.
Abstract
Commercial and political pressures are pushing for a halt to the use of animals in toxicology tests in Europe. This change will also mean a move towards better science, says Alison Abbott.
Every time you reach for an eyedrop or reapply a lip salve, you do so confident that the chemicals they contain are safe to use. But the toxicology tests on which regulators rely to gather this information are stuck in a time warp, and are largely based on wasteful and often poorly predictive animal experiments.
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