Co-legislators have now finalised an agreement on the ‘One Substance, One Assessment’ (OSOA) package; which is a crucial step towards a more ethical, transparent, and scientifically advanced approach to chemical safety assessment.

Understanding the Package.

Central to the OSOA package is the Common Data Platform on Chemicals; or the ‘CDPC’.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-a-european-green-deal/file-access-to-and-availability-sharing-and-re-use-of-chemical-data-%28refit%29

This is a new regulatory tool designed to centralise and streamline how chemical safety data is managed across EU agencies. The platform will link datasets from the European Chemicals Agency, the European Food Safety Authority, the European Medicines Agency and the European Environment Agency.

The CPDC aims to improve transparency, reduce the repeated duplications of testing and results data, and most critically, PROMOTE THE USE OF non-animal methods, such as in vitro modelling, read across techniques and in silico tools and supporting omics-based science.

Thin new approach will hopefully push forward the EU commitment to phase out animal testing, especially when it comes to chemicals.

Eurogroup for Animals, along with other NGO’s, very much welcomes this initiative; with the European Citizens Initiative gathering a petition in excess of 1.2 Million signatures; and sending a powerful message to EU law makers.

https://citizens-initiative-forum.europa.eu/document/save-cruelty-free-cosmetics-commit-europe-without-animal-testing_en#:~:text=%22Save%20Cruelty%20Free%20Cosmetics%20%E2%80%93%20Commit,regulatory%20testing%20and%20educational%20purposes.

EU citizens have demanded; and now will be delivered with something that reflects that science in Europe reflects the highest innovations, transparency and ethical responsibility; such as reducing repeated animal testing.

Another ‘Animal Win’ fore people of the EU – your voice has been heard and now transformed into actions !