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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.

The ICCS brings together cosmetics and chemicals industry experts with animal protection NGOs (over 35 organisations in total) to accelerate widespread use of animal-free safety science through research, education and regulatory engagement.

The Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics European Citizen Initiative (ECI) received over 1.2 million EU resident verified signatures in 12 months (August 2021 to August 2022).

The UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) have announced that Dr Andy Scott will join the NC3Rs Board from January 2024

An international consortium involving SEAC and headed by Prof. Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers, Radboud University has just received €955,000 funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to research how the acceleration of the transition to animal-free safety assessment can be governed

Scientists from SEAC and other colleagues from Unilever are collaborating with a free education and training activity in Latin America, namely “In Vitro Science Webinar Series”, organized by the Faculty of Pharmacy from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil.

Dr Sarah Sim has been appointed as Professor of Corporate Environmental Sustainability at the Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES) of the Faculty of Sciences