A New Decision Tree for Acute Oral Toxicity
A new paper co-authored by XCellR8’s Dr. Tom Ward has set out a practical Decision Tree designed to help safety assessors determine when animal testing for acute oral toxicity is genuinely necessary. We were delighted to see its acceptance for publication in...
How Do You Know? A Short History of GLP
In the 1970s, one of the largest toxicology laboratories in the United States was found to have been fabricating safety data on an industrial scale. Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories ran studies underpinning regulatory approvals for pesticides, industrial chemicals and...
Collagen Boosting – The Claim Everyone Wants and How to Substantiate It
Collagen has become a central idea in anti-ageing skincare, and the framing around it has shifted. The industry now talks about “collagen banking”: acting before collagen decline becomes visible rather than correcting it afterwards. In practice that means...