The EU commission's draft report on alternative (non-animal) methods for cosmetics testing: Current status and future prospects - 2010: A missed opportunity

ATLA Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 339-343

  Spielmann, Horst ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; EDITORIAL; EUROPEAN UNION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79251541186     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119291003800507     Document Type: Editorial

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