OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals

The OECD releases 17 new, updated, corrected or deleted Test Guidelines accepted internationally as standard methods for safety testing. These Test Guidelines are regularly updated to reflect scientific and technical progress. They determine physical and chemical properties, effects on human health and wildlife, environmental fate and behaviour, and pesticide residue chemistry.

The release contains: 

• Test Guidelines to address the Safety of Nanomaterials ( TG 412, TG 413 and TG 318 - Read more) 
• Test Guidelines to better characterise the effects of chemicals on bees or other pollinators (TG 245, TG 246, TG 247)
• Test Guidelines that use less animals to determine acute inhalation and acute dermal toxicity (TG 433 and TG 402)
• A Test Guideline on in vitro methods for skin sensitisation, updated with an additional assay (TG 442E)
• A Test Guideline to measure the toxicity of chemicals to organisms essential to the proper functioning of sewage-treatment plants (TG 244)
• Corrected Test Guidelines for Eye Hazard Potential to include a new reference to a Guidance Document on integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (TG 405, TG 437, TG 438, TG 460, TG 491 and TG 492)
• The cancellation of TG 415 on the One-Generation Reproductive Toxicity Study (dating from 1983) because it is no longer used and better alternatives are available to address current regulatory needs.

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