Assuring consumer safety without animal testing: A feasibility case study for skin sensitisation

ATLA Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 557-568

  Maxwell, Gavin ^a   Aleksic, Maja ^a   Aptula, Aynur ^a   Carmichael, Paul ^a   Fentem, Julia ^a   Gilmour, Nicola ^a   MacKay, Cameron ^a   Pease, Camilla ^a   Pendlington, Ruth ^a   Reynolds, Fiona ^a   Scott, Daniel ^a   Warner, Guy ^a   Westmoreland, Carl ^a  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allergic contact dermatitis; Alternatives; Animal testing; Consumer safety; Cosmetic testing; Genomics; In silico; In vitro; Proteomics; Risk assessment; Skin allergy; Skin sensitisation; Three Rs.

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TESTING REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; COSMETIC INDUSTRY; EUROPEAN UNION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MARKETING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN SENSITIZATION; TECHNOLOGY; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 57349145721     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290803600511     Document Type: Article

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