EU meeting
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
European Partnership to Promote Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) will present its draft action plan during European Commission Health & Consumer Protection DG Inter-Committee Coordination Group meeting April 5, according to 1agenda posted to EC's Web site. EPAA was founded in November by industry and government reps to explore ways to reduce animal use; group intends to undertake projects such as evaluating new in vitro tests, current test method quality and intelligent chemical testing strategies (2"The Rose Sheet" Nov. 14, 2005, p. 8). Coordination group, comprising Scientific Committee on Consumer Products, Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly-Identified Health Risks and Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks, also will discuss new requests to each committee and their positions on alternative testing methods...