Non-animal testing promoted
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SCIENTISTS in China are being trained in how to use state-of-the-art in vitro methods to test cosmetics instead of using live animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs as part of an US$80,000 grant from Humane Society International, The Humane Society of the United States and the Human Toxicology Project Consortium. China’s mainland is the first stop on HSI’s Be Cruelty-Free Asia science tour, which will also stop in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan.
In the campaign, HSI has teamed up with global non-animal test method experts, the Institute for In Vitro Sciences, to provide intensive laboratory-based training during the “2nd Workshop and Training in Alternatives Methods” organized by the Guangdong Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. State-of-the-art scientifically validated and internationally accepted in vitro eye and skin irritation methods can replace tests in which chemicals are placed in the eyes of live rabbits or spread on the shaved skin of mice and guinea pigs. While in vitro and other non-animal techniques are widely used across Europe, where cosmetics animal testing was banned in 2009, in China such methods have only recently been adopted. Most Chinese scientists have limited access to non-animal techniques and testing facilities.
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