L'impegno delle istituzioni a guidare la transizione verso la completa eliminazione dei test sugli animali.

In Europe, Directive 2010/63/EU aims to protect animals used for scientific purposes and reduce their use, asking institutions to commit in this direction. At the same time, the REACH regulation (EC 2006/1907) is based on the concept that it is important to develop alternative methods to test the toxicity of chemical substances. The intentions are good, but the results in terms of reducing animal use are limited. Following a publication by the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), scientific development has turned towards new horizons with the use of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), which aim to study the mechanisms of chemical substances primarily using biological material of human origin. Today, the main institutions are all committed to building greater knowledge of these NAMs in order to make them robust and reliable for regulatory use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]