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The application of in silico approaches to food chemical assessments

Hazard identification and characterization for food safety assessment (e.g., flavourings, food contact materials, food contaminants) takes advantage of the availability of relevant data in appropriate databases as well as the application of in silico toxicology methods including category formation (i.e., chemical grouping), read-across, expert rule-based systems (i.e., structural alerts), and statistical-based systems (i.e., Quantitative Structure-Activity …

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Important Aspects to Consider in the Application of in silico Tools for Regulatory Contexts

This year has been very exciting for the computational toxicology group at Instem. Together with our collaborators, customers, partners and colleagues we progressed our efforts to further regulatory acceptance and use of in silico approaches to support the 3Rs.

World Congress on Alternatives

The World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences is where scientists from academia, industry, government, and the non-profit sector meet to advance the 3Rs—to reduce, refine, and replace the use of animals. This year the conference – WC12 – is being held at Niagara Falls in Canada.1 The conference is organized …

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Update from QSAR 2023

We recently attended the 20th International Workshop on (Q)SAR in Environmental and Health Sciences (QSAR 2023) held in Copenhagen. It was a great meeting with many interesting topics, including read-across approaches, new methods, and applications of (Q)SARs. We were happy to provide a course on regulatory uses of in silico modelling, covering different applications across …

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Nine Instem Posters at the 2023 SOT Meeting

Instem will again have a large presence at this year’s Society of Toxicology meeting in Nashville.1 As part of the scientific program, we will be co-authoring on nine posters covering the spectrum of scientific topics where we are undertaking research and development activities. This work supports many regulatory mandates and guidelines, including SEND, carcinogenicity risk …

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Computational toxicology 2022 year-end review

The computational toxicology group here at Instem has had another busy year that has resulted in six publications and book chapters1-6, completion of existing and initiation of new collaborative working groups, as well as significant updates to our computational toxicology solutions. We have been collaborating on a number of research topics related to the in …

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Acute Toxicity in silico Battery

We are happy to have completed, after many years of work, a full battery of in silico models to evaluate acute toxicity. These models predict acute lethality by three routes of exposure (oral, dermal, inhalation), as well as skin and eye irritation/corrosion, and skin sensitization. They aim to support a variety of applications, including health, …

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New in silico paper on acute toxicity

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new paper “Principles and Procedures for Assessment of Acute Toxicity Incorporating In Silico Methods”.1 This paper presents the results from a significant cross-industry collaboration to support the application of in silico methods for (1) product research and development, (2) product approval and registration as well as …

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Predicting the 6-pack

The 6-pack provides information on health hazards from short-term exposure to a test substance. It is a battery of in vivo tests that evaluate 1) acute systemic toxicity by different routes of exposure (i.e., oral, inhalation and dermal); 2) skin and eye irritation/corrosion; 3) dermal sensitization. It is used in the assessment of many products …

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