BASF, a leading international chemical company, and Promega Corporation, an innovative services and solutions provider in the life sciences industry, have developed a test that can reveal a substance’s allergenic potential using a cell line that lives entirely in test tubes. This test requires NO living animals! From Dr. Robert Landsiedel, head of the short-term Toxicology unit at BASF:
Combining the new method with two additional alternative methods to investigate skin sensitization allows us not only to significantly reduce the number of animal studies, but also to predict a possible allergic potential more reliably than before
The method has been submitted to the European Committee for approval as a standard method for toxicological studies in Europe. Read more here.