IIVS is pleased to announce the co-publication of several respiratory-based articles highlighting: the characterization and recommendations for non-animal techniques used to model mucociliary clearance in human-derived test systems, the dosimetry of tobacco products for in vitro testing and a third article covering the use of...
The ability to ascertain the maximum limit of a compound that can be applied to the skin without inducing skin sensitization is a critical safety criterion for virtually any risk assessment. Using regression models developed by Givaudan (Kempthal, Switzerland), IIVS is able to perform a computational approach to determine...
NEW! Good In Vitro Method Practices (GIVMP) Certification IIVS is pleased to announce our new business-to-business GIVIMP Certification Program created to help laboratories: As an OECD guidance document, GIVIMP sets forth internationally recognized quality standards to help ensure that new in vitro methods are ready...
If you missed the webinar: Establishing Scientific Confidence in New Approach Methodologies (NAMs): Eye Irritation Testing and Beyond, co-sponsored by the Risk Assessment and In Vitro and Alternative Methods Specialty Sections of SOT, a recording is now posted. Speakers included Hans Raabe (IIVS) and Dr. Amy...
Happy New Year! IIVS is pleased to greet 2022 with the announcement of a joint publication with the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM) involving the evaluation of photoirritation potential of over 100 compounds. This effort, spanning the course of 7 years, involved a tiered...
In addition to IIVS’ non-animal safety testing services, we also provide efficacy testing designed to evaluate raw materials and formulations for anti-inflammatory and skin tone modulating properties. Inflammation is a common effect experienced after encounters with irritating substances, bacterial infection or by those suffering from auto-immune...
It’s been a very exciting year in the field of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) with the release of the OECD 497 and 498 Test Guidelines which have codified Defined Approaches for Skin Sensitization and the Reconstructed Human Epidermis Phototoxicity Test, respectively....
