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This report by scientists at the US EPA, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, the European Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) and the Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) discussed the importance of having specific quality control... Read More

The 3M Strategic Toxicology Laboratory (STL) is an internal corporate resource providing toxicology support to 3M businesses. An objective in the STL is to routinely incorporate in vitro test methods, with a recent focus on the use of reconstructed human... Read More

The manufacture, transport, and marketing of chemicals and finished products requires the prior toxicologic evaluation and assessment of skin reactivity (corrosion and irritation) that may result from intended or accidental skin exposure. Procedures for the skin testing of new chemicals... Read More

This study by scientists at Covance Laboratories and the University of York demonstrated that MatTek’s EpiDerm in vitro human skin tissue equivalent can be used to accurately predict the dermal corrosivity and skin irritation potential of 12 test chemicals. A... Read More