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Horizon Scanning – How to add value not additional cost
Innovation is the key to business success but is always associated with risks. However, risk aversion can be just as damaging to future success as taking unnecessary risks. Consequently, coherent and holistic business risk management has to be a core component of any business strategy. The pace of scientific discovery, understanding and innovation today is unprecedented. Horizon scanning is a process by which organisations can keep abreast of these developments in order to maximise their potential and mitigate their negative impacts.
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New website on Alternatives to Animal Testing
We have worked with our collaborators to produce a new website which presents the results from a four-year Defra project on Alternatives to Animal Testing. The following tasks were completed: Toxicological information for skin sensitisation and fish acute toxicity were collated. This information was obtained from the open literature (including a variety of internet sources) [...]
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Assessing the biological effects of nanomaterials
Last week I went to a technical workshop organised by NanoImpactNet on the hazard assessment of nanomaterials in Biota. The objective of the workshop was to identify problems and potential solutions when studying the biological effects of nanomaterials. It was hoped that some agreement could be reached in terms of modifications required to ecotoxicity methods for fundamental research and more applied regulatory testing.
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SUBSTITUTION – What?, Why? and How?
The UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum has just published a Guide to Substitution.
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