Kimberley Jerwood's blog articles
Exploring Alternative Methods to Animal Toxicity Testing
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It has been promised for a heck of a long time, but are we now close to an era when a chemical’s toxic potential can be comprehensively defined without exploiting fellow sentient creatures. As well as this obvious ethical gain, alternative test methods to animal testing have the equally attractive potential to reduce the times and costs associated with safety testing.
Extractables and leachables: What the E&L are they?!
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When we are unfortunate enough to have to take a drug or to be in contact with some sort of medical device, we are going to be exposed to more than maybe we bargained for...click to read about how we can help.
CAATs out the bag: Unexpected Animal Use Figures Under REACH Testing
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The European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation, which came into force in 2008, emphasised that “before (proposing) additional animal testing, use of all other options should be considered. It is important to emphasise that testing on vertebrate animals must only be conducted or proposed as a last resort”.
Aspartame: Hazard vs Risk (and why it’s got everyone in a tiff)
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Earlier this month, The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the popular non-sugar sweetener aspartame as “possibly” carcinogenic to humans which has, understandably, raised concerns within industry and left a taste in consumers’ mouths that was far less sweet than they were used to.