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New network to drive harmonisation in product environmental sustainability assessment

Unilever has worked closely with the UK NC3Rs and the British Toxicology Society (BTS) to develop a vision for a world-leading regulatory framework that firmly embeds modern, non-animal science in chemical safety testing.

The science underpinning the safety assessment of microbiome perturbations induced by chemicals, prebiotics and probiotics was recently discussed at a UK Microbiology Society workshop organised in partnership with Unilever.

Dr Katy Armstrong has been appointed as a visiting lecturer at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield. Her appointment is part of a new partnership to train the next generation of life cycle assesmment scientists.

SEAC contributes LCA expertise to first-ever UK cross-sector collaboration aimed at converting industrial waste gases into chemicals that can be used to manufacture superior and more sustainable consumer products.

SEAC laboratories achieve gold award accreditation first time around in recognition for their long commitment and concerted efforts towards creating sustainable laboratories.

An editorial article was recently published in a leading environmental science journal by two SEAC scientists, Claudia Rivetti and Bruno Campos, fostering the discussion towards the need for a paradigm shift when assessing environmental safety. One that is reliant on New...

Dr. Bruno Campos, SEAC Environmental Safety Science leader, has been elected as the European President of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC EU) for the 2023-2024 period.

Dr. Julia Fentem, Global Head of Safety, Environmental & Regulatory Sciences, provides her perspective on recent events ahead of the EU Commission response to the European Citizens Initiative (ECI) “Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics —Commit to a Europe without Animal Testing”

As part of our commitment to recognise scientific contributions and reward high-quality research and development that has an impact on 21st-century safety science without animal testing, Unilever, in partnership with the Chinese Society of Toxicology (C-SOT), has sponsored...

Recently published PhD research investigating the recent development of environmental rating ecolabels provides a new framework to guide harmonisation of schemes

Over the past four years, SEAC scientists have been working closely with Humane Society International and Animal-Free Safety Assessment (AFSA) collaboration partners to create the AFSA Master Class e-learning course.