Establishing the representativeness of available surface water scenarios for plant protection products in environmental risk assessment Opinion of the Panel on Plant protection Products of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment (VKM)in Norway -

Risikovurdering av kombinasjonseffekter av plantevernmiddelrester i stikkprøver fra importerte rosiner, druer, pærer og norske jordbær -Vitenskapelig uttalelse fra faggruppen for plantevernmidler i Vitenskapskomiteen for mat og miljø

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Safer chemicals using less animals: kick-off of the European ONTOX project

The 3Rs concept, calling for replacement, reduction and refinement of animal experimentation, is receiving increasing attention around the world, and has found its way to legislation, in particular in the European Union. This is aligned by continuing high-level efforts of the European Commission to support development and implementation of 3Rs methods. In this respect, the European project called "ONTOX: ontology-driven and artificial intelligence-based repeated dose toxicity testing of chemicals for next generation risk assessment" was recently initiated with the goal to provide a functional and sustainable solution for advancing human risk assessment of chemicals without the use of animal…