Draize Eye Scores and Eye Irritation Thresholds in Man Can Be Combined into One QSARa

Draize Eye Irritancy Test Rabbits

Household products, shampoos, pesticides, weed killers, even riot control gases, are just some of the products tested for irritancy in the eyes of conscious rabbits. The Draize test, introduced in 1944, is cruelly simple. The substance under test is sprayed or instilled into one eye of an albino rabbit. Generally no pain relief is given and the test often proceeds for 7 days during which the co...

Eye Evolution: Two Eyes Can Be Better Than One

The development of our eyes is owed in part to ancestral structures which functioned in phototaxis. With the origin of bilateral annelid larva, two eyes co-evolved with neurons to improve phototaxis performance.

1 Subgroup 3 . Eye Irritation

Colworth, United Kingdom as an in vitro alternative to the in vivo Draize rabbit eye test method for the assessment of eye irritation

The IRE test was developed by Burton and his colleagues at Unilever Research Laboratory, Colworth, United Kingdom as an in vitro alternative to the in vivo Draize rabbit eye test method for the assessment of eye irritation (Burton et al. 1981). In the IRE test method, liquid test substances are spread using a syringe and solids are pulverized and applied as a powder over the corneas of enucleat...

Analysis of Draize Eye Irritation Testing and its Prediction by Mining Publicly Available 2008 - 2014 REACH Data 1

Public data from ECHA online dossiers on 9,801 substances encompassing 326,749 experimental key studies and additional information on classification and labeling were made computable. Eye irritation hazard, for which the rabbit Draize eye test still represents the reference method, was analyzed. Dossiers contained 9,782 Draize eye studies on 3,420 unique substances, indicating frequent retestin...