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Division 3.8.6 Use of read-across should be substantiated and justified

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Several approaches exist for the read-across technique. The use of this technique should be substantiated and justified.

Notes on Division 3

Footnotes

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The SCCS’s Notes of Guidance for the Testing of Cosmetic Ingredients and their Safety Evaluation, 8th Revision, SCCS/1501/12, and its subsequent updates.

Notes on Division 3.8

Footnotes

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M. Pauwels, V. Rogiers, Human Health Safety Evaluation of Cosmetics in the EU: A Legally Imposed Challenge to Science, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 243 (2010), p. 261.

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Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the animal testing and marketing ban and on the state of play in relation to alternative methods in the field of cosmetics, COM(2013) 135 final.