Alternative Test Methods: Validation and Regulatory Status

Conventional test method Alternative Test Method Infor- mation Last Updated
Name & Description Validation Status Regulatory Status Effect or Potential Effect on Animal Use
Chronic/Repeated Dose Toxicity

Chronic Toxicity Study, second species, for pesticides (OECD TG 452)

Repeated Dose 90-Day Oral Toxicity Study in Non-Rodents
Description and references

EU: Endorsed as a valid strategy by ECVAM (2006)

OECD: TG 409 (1998)

US: Accepted by EPA (2007)

Refinement
(Duration of animal test period is shorter )

April 2009

Repeated Dose 28-day Oral Toxicity Study in Rodents
(OECD TG 407)

AND  
Reproduction/ Developmental Toxicity Screening Test
(OECD TG 421)


Combined Repeated Dose Toxicity Study with the Reproduction/ Developmental Toxicity Screening Test
Description and references

No information

OECD: TG 422 (1996)

Reduction

April 2009

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