Join us on Wednesday, 27 October 2021 for the EPAA Annual Conference. Registration is now open!
The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) is proud to announce its 2021 Refinement Prize. This prize of €6000 will be granted to a laboratory technician, animal care- taker or technologist who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in new, novel approaches to advance implementation and/or awareness raising of refinement of animal testing.
The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) supports students and young scientists with outstanding work in the field of alternative approaches to attend a high-profile scientific event.
The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) is adapting its organisational structure to help Europe’s industrial ecosystems recover more effectively from the COVID-crisis and to achieve the EU's digital and green goals.
Today, the Commission launched a structured dialogue with the actors in the pharmaceuticals manufacturing chain as part of the Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe.
The Commission adopted a Communication on the visual appearance of the label on EU fertilising products.
Today, the Commission took firm steps to ensure that wildlife is protected from the negative effects of lead in the environment, by restricting its use in gunshot in or around wetlands.
The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare (EDQM), in collaboration with the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) and the Joint Research Centre European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (JRC EURL ECVAM), is organising a workshop entitled 'Novel in vitro model as alternative to in vivo toxoid vaccines testing: Clostridium septicum vaccine as a proof of concept', on 25-26 January 2021.
The Commission is taking an important step to protect EU citizens' health from hazardous chemicals contained in mixtures for tattoo inks and permanent make-up.
On 14 November 2020, two delegated Regulations harmonising information requirements for hazardous chemicals enter into force. They will better protect citizens from poisoning accidents and ease submissions by industry. The two Regulations address workability issues by introducing one generic and sector-specific solutions in the CLP Regulation (Regulation 1272/2008/EU).
Today, the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA), which gathers 245 public and private actors covering the whole plastics value chains, has delivered its first actions.
The 2020 European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) Annual Conference took place on Tuesday, 10 November 2020. A record number of over 270 people from all over the world attended this online event.
The Commission is taking another important step to protect EU consumers from hazardous substances in frequent contact with human skin, which are known to cause cancer and reproductive health problems.
Today, the European Commission adopted the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. The Strategy is the first step towards a zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment announced in the European Green Deal. The Strategy will boost innovation for safe and sustainable chemicals, and increase protection of human health and the environment against hazardous chemicals. This includes prohibiting the use of the most harmful chemicals in consumer products such as toys, childcare articles, cosmetics, detergents, food contact materials and textiles, unless proven essential for society, and ensuring that all chemicals are used more safely and sustainably.
The EPAA is taking part in the local organizing committee of the next world congress, to be held in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is seeking feedback on the draft opinion of the Committee for Socio-economic Analysis (SEAC) on ECHA's proposed restriction of microplastics intentionally added to products.
With this call for expressions of interest, the European Commission aims to establish a list of candidates to be proposed to the Management Board of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
The green deal communication announced that the Commission would present a chemicals strategy for sustainability to help better protect citizens and the environment against hazardous chemicals and encourage innovation for the development of safe and sustainable alternatives.
The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing's (EPAA) 2020 3Rs Science Prize is now open for submissions.
Legal study to verify the conformity to Directive 2013/29/EU and Commission Implementing Directive 2014/58/EU on Pyrotechnic Articles as well as Directive 2014/28/EU on Civil Explosives in all EU countries.
