Alternative (non-animal) methods for cosmetics testing: current status and future prospects—2010

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Sarah Adler1, David A. Basketter2, Stuart Creton3, Olavi Pelkonen4, Jan van Benthem5, Valérie Zuang6, Klaus Ejner Andersen7, Alexandre Angers-Loustau6, Aynur O. Aptula8, Anna Bal‐Price6, Emilio Benfenati9, Ulrike Bernauer10, Jos Bessems11, Frédéric Y. Bois12, Alan R. Boobis13, Esther Brandon11, Susanne Bremer6, Thomas H. Broschard14, Silvana Casati6, Sandra Coecke6, Raffaella Corvi6, Mark T.D. Cronin15, George P. Daston16, W. Dekant17, Susan P. Felter18, Elise Grignard6, Ursula Gundert‐Remy19, Tuula Heinonen20, Ian Kimber21, Jos Kleinjans22, Hannu Komulainen23, Reinhard Kreiling24, Kreysa Joachim6, Sofia Batista Leite25, George Loizou26, Gavin Maxwell8, Paolo Mazzatorta27, Sharon Munn6, Stefan Pfuhler18, Pascal Phrakonkham6, Aldert H. Piersma5, Albrecht Poth28, Pilar Prieto6, Guillermo Repetto29, Vera Rogiers30, Greet Schoeters31, Michael Schwarz32, Rositsa Serafimova6, Hanna Tähti20, Emanuela Testai33, Joost van Delft22, Henk Van Loveren34, Mathieu Vinken30, Andrew Worth6, J.M. Zaldı́var6
1Centre for Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to Animal Experiments (ZEBET), Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany
2DABMEB Consultancy Ltd, Sharnbrook, UK
3NC3Rs, London, UK
4Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
5Laboratory for Health Protection Research, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
6ECVAM, Institute for Health & Consumer Protection, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, VA, Italy
7Department of Dermatology and Allergy Centre, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
8SEAC, Unilever, Colworth Science Park, Sharnbrook, UK
9Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Instituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", Milan, Italy
10Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, BfR, Berlin, Germany
11Centre for Substances and Integrated Risk Assessment, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
12Chair of Mathematical Modelling for Systems Toxicology, Compiegne and INERIS, DRC/VIVA/METO, Compiegne University of Technology, Verneuil en Halatte, France
13Imperial College London, London, UK
14Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
15School of Pharmacy and Chemistry, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
16Miami Valley Innovation Center, The Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH, USA
17Department of Toxicology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
18Procter and Gamble Company, Central Product Safety, Cincinnati, OH, USA
19Department Toxicology, Medical School (Charité), Berlin, Germany
20FICAM, School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
21University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
22Department of Health Risk Analyses and Toxicology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
23Department of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Kuopio, Finland
24Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH, Sulzbach, Germany
25Instituto Tecnologia Química Biológica (ITQB)/Instituto Biologia Experimental (IBET), Oeiras, Portugal
26Health and Safety Laboratory, Mathematical Sciences Unit, Health Improvement Group, Harpur Hill, Buxton, UK
27Nestlé Research Center, Vers-Chez-Les-Blanc, Lausanne, Switzerland
28Harlan Cytotest Cell Research GmbH, Roßdorf, Germany
29(University “Pablo de Olavide”, Sevilla, Spain)
30Department of Toxicology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
31Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
32Institute of Pharmacology und Toxicology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
33Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
34National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Laboratory for Toxicology, Pathology and Genetics, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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