The use of alternatives to testing on animals for the REACH regulation

Registrants use a number of alternative testing methods to generate information on the hazards of chemicals, as required by the REACH Regulation. Over 38 000 registration dossiers in ECHA’s data base have been used as the main source of information for this report. To avoid unnecessary animal testing, industry has shared data on substances as well as increasingly used alternatives, such as build categories and predict substance properties by “read-across”. Progress has also been made in the use of in vitro methods