Congress on alternatives to animal testing

The 14th congress on alternatives to animal testing will be held in Linz, Austria from 28 to 30 September.

Topics which will be covered at the event include:
- EU and national efforts to implement the 3R principles (refinement, reduction, replacement) into academic and industrial (including the cosmetics industry) research;
- legal and ethical aspects arising from efforts to standardise and harmonise in-vitro approaches;
- the development of the guidelines on European chemicals and cosmetics policy in context with the use of alternatives principles;
- the revision of the EU Directive 86/609, which affects all scientists, companies and governmental authorities which act in the field of animal testing and alternatives to animal testing;
- new technologies and methods expanding the repertoire of 3R related experimental approaches.

The European Commission's European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) is a co-organiser of the event.For more information, please visit:
http://www.zet.or.at/kongress/Linz2007/(opens in new window)