EPA moves forward on effort to end animal testing for chemical assessments

The EPA is advancing efforts to replace animal testing with alternative methods for evaluating the safety of industrial chemicals. This shift aims to make safety assessments more transparent while protecting worker health and reducing reliance on animal testing.

Washington — Recent Environmental Protection Agency actions will further EPA’s mission to eliminate animal testing in industrial chemical assessments and promote “more transparent safety decisions” to protect workers, the agency asserts. On June 2, EPA announced that it has updated its list of…

This story was originally published by Safety+Health Magazine.