The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has responded to requests from animal welfare groups to clear up vague chemical safety testing requirements, which will spare about 4.5 million animals from toxicity testing.
Animal welfare groups including the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments, Eurogroup for Animals, Humane Society International - Europe, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and PETA Europe all wrote ECHA with concerns about companies performing repeated toxicity tests in order to register chemicals under the EU’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulations, which governs chemicals sold in Europe.

From the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection

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