2024

REACH REGULATION UPDATE 2024: What is expected

by cyb2025

ANTONIO CONTO

Chemsafe, Colleretto Giacosa (TO), Italy

The story of the possible replacement of traditional toxicology approaches with more integrated and modern methods started many years ago with the declaration of the 3Rs Principle.

 

In 1959 two Academics, Rex Burch and William Russell, Members of the University Federation of Animal Welfare (USA), published a book that will become, in the following years, a milestone in the animal welfare policy, “The Principles of Human Experimental Technique”. In such a book the two scientists presented a road map addressed to practice an animal experimentation that will take into account both the data quality and the welfare of animals used in testing. Their approach is still known as the 3R principles where 3Rs means:

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Antonio Conto is the founder of Chemsafe, an indipendent Regulatory Affairs company established in 2001. He has been working as Experimental Toxicologist in an Italian CRO for 13 years (1988-2001) before founding Chemsafe.
He manages a lot of REACH registration dossiers and related Risk Assessment at international level. In 2011 he was recognized as European Registered Toxicologist i within EUROTOX as well as RENTIC (the Italian Registry of Toxicologist). Antonio pubblished around 100 papers in the field of regulatory science and attended lots of regulatory/scientific events as invited speaker. He is active members of various associations both in the chemical and medical areas (pharma and Medical Devices).

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