The International Collaboration on Cosmetics Safety (ICCS) says it is making significant progress in advancing non-animal safety assessments for the cosmetics industry. Meanwhile, Colombia is campaigning to ban animal testing for cosmetics. At the inaugural conference Washington DC, US, leaders from 13 countries, including regulatory agencies such as the US FDA, Health Canada and the OECD, discussed the adoption of Next Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA) and non-animal methodologies (NAMs).
