ANTARES - Alternative Non-Testing methods Assessed for REACH Substances
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Data inizio: 01/01/2010
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Sommario
ANTARES is a project in the Life program of EU policy area chemicals. The challenge is to address the problem of defining the safety of chemical compounds using all the available knowledge and not relying only of animal tests. The action will be taken in Italy and then transferred in Germany. The partner ISS is the responsible in Italy of the application and evaluation of the REACH legislation, while Federchimica represents all the chemical Italian industry, responsible of producing data about the chemicals. The other partners are research institution called to make the assessment of methods.
These are the main objectives of the project ANTARES:
The project started in January 2010 and is under the responsibility of Italian “Ministero dell’ambiente” (http://www.minambiente.it/).
These are the main objectives of the project ANTARES:
- to verify the possible use and performances of the non-testing methods (QSAR models, read across, in vitro) for REACH;
- to identify requirements and constraints originating from the REACH legislation which may affect the non-testing methods;
- to identify safety assessment factors for the non-testing methods;
- to integrate different non-testing methods, achieving superior performances;
- to promote non-testing methods for legislative purposes.
The project started in January 2010 and is under the responsibility of Italian “Ministero dell’ambiente” (http://www.minambiente.it/).
Risultati del progetto ed eventuali pubblicazioni scientifiche/brevetti