Acute Toxicity Testing In Vitro and the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals: The Report and Recommendations of ECVAM Workshop 16

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 499-510

  Seibert, Hasso ^a   Balls, Michael ^b   Fentem, Julia H ^b   Bianchi, Vera ^c   Clothier, Richard H ^d   Dierickx, Paul J ^e   Ekwall, Björn ^f   Garle, Michael J ^d   Gómez Lechón, Maria José ^g   Gribaldo, Laura ^b   Gülden, Michael ^a   Liebsch, Manfred ^h   Rasmussen, Eva ⁱ   Roguet, Roland ^j   Shrivastava, Ravi ^k   Walum, Erik ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology of Brussels   (Belgium)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^h FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

ⁱ National Food Agency of Denmark   (Denmark)

^j L ORÉAL RECHERCHE   (France)

^k Biopôle   (France)

^l PFIZER INC   (United States)

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