by Minty Hand | Mar 17, 2021 | Compliance & regulation, News
Ana Quevedo, Technical Sales Manager, and Chris Longmore, Scientific Account Manager, recently attended the CTPA open webinar on UK regulations for cosmetics. Although the Cosmetic and Chemical industries are currently faced with a number of changes, there are many...
by Carol Treasure | Jan 27, 2021 | Compliance & regulation, News
Last week Westminster Energy Forum organised an insightful webinar focussing on an unavoidable topic for many of us – UK REACH. An array of excellent speakers from industry, trade associations and the government joined the discussion – here’s our take-home points....
by Minty Hand | Jan 20, 2021 | Animal-free testing, Compliance & regulation, News
France is now the first EU country able to export “ordinary” cruelty-free cosmetics to China. France’s ANSM develop dedicated platform for certificate application process French beauty companies can now apply, via a dedicated online platform developed by...
by Minty Hand | Dec 16, 2020 | Compliance & regulation, News
The main purpose of a Scientific Account Manager at an animal-free in vitro testing lab is to explain how the technologies we offer suit our clients’ needs and support the development of their animal-free testing strategies. We caught up with XCellR8 Scientific...
by Carol Treasure | Oct 13, 2020 | Animal-free testing, Compliance & regulation, News
With 2020 dominated by the global pandemic, Brexit seems to be creeping up on the UK relatively undercover. But behind the scenes, our exit from the European Union on 31 December 2020 raises big issues across the cosmetics and chemical sectors in terms of REACH...
by Minty Hand | Jun 3, 2020 | Animal-free testing, Compliance & regulation, News
A recent article by Chemical Watch stating that “Over 50% of REACH substances need animal tests for skin sensitisation” couldn’t fail to catch my attention, or that of many of my colleagues across the industry. It’s been a hot topic of conversation over the...
