Richard Young's blog articles
Save yourself the pain of last-minute reformulation with early ingredient screening
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Developing a new consumer product? Maybe you’ve come up with the hottest new gadget or e-liquid flavour and are eager to get the product out to market as soon as possible. Prior to mass production, a safety evaluation is key. A preliminary screening assessment of the component ingredients during early development could save you a lot of time and money further down the line.
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”.