by Minty Hand | Jan 10, 2022 | Animal-free testing, Compliance & regulation, News
Here’s something to warm your heart if you’re an animal lover, or even if you just happen to support the use of modern science to ensure safer products! What are the changes? It’s so encouraging to know that on 1st January, cruelty-free cosmetics...
by Minty Hand | Dec 2, 2021 | Animal-free testing, News, XCellR8 News
Today we’re talking collabs*, we’re talking expertise exchange, we’re talking co-marketing because some things are just better together.. ‘The more the merrier’ might sound cheesy but when you think about it, two companies coming together, pooling their knowledge,...
by Minty Hand | Aug 13, 2021 | Animal-free testing, Compliance & regulation, News
For the first time since 1998, the UK Home Office is reconsidering the ban on animal testing for cosmetics. In a letter to Cruelty Free International, the government seems to be following the European Chemicals Agency’s lead: some cosmetic-only ingredients need to be...
by Minty Hand | Jun 8, 2021 | Animal-free testing, In Vitro Safety, News, XCellR8 News
After receiving a 70% research grant from Innovate UK, we have started an innovative project to find a scientifically and ethically advanced test method that’s highly predictive of human acute oral toxicity and relevant to our real-life exposure to chemicals. What is...
by Minty Hand | Apr 29, 2021 | In Vitro Safety, XCellR8 News
Dr Fiona Jacobs joined the XCellR8 team in October 2017 as Study Director. She looks after most of the non-GLP studies that our clients ask for, focusing primarily on in vitro genotoxicity tests using the BlueScreenTM method, adapted to use animal-free reagents. We...
