An Expert Consortium Review of the EC - commissioned Report “ Alternative ( Non - Animal ) Methods for Cosmetics Testing : Current Status and Future Prospects – 2010 ” *

An Expert Consortium Review of the EC-commissioned Report “Alternative (Non-Animal) Methods for Cosmetics Testing: Current Status and Future Prospects – 2010”* Thomas Hartung , Bas J. Blaauboer , Sieto Bosgra , Edward Carney , Joachim Coenen , Rory B. Conolly , Emanuela Corsini , Sidney Green , Elaine M. Faustman , Anthony Gaspari , Makoto Hayashi , A. Wallace Hayes , Jan G. Hengstler , Lisbeth E. Knudsen , Thomas B. Knudsen , James M. McKim , Walter Pfaller , and Erwin L. Roggen 18 Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, CAAt, Baltimore, and University of Konstanz, CAAt-europe, Germany; Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair on “Alternatives to Animal testing in toxicological Risk Assessment”, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division of toxicology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; tNO, Pharmacokinetics, Utrecht, the Netherlands; the Dow Chemical Company, Predictive toxicology, Midland, MI, USA; Merck Serono, Animal Science & Welfare, R&D Quality Assurance Darmstadt, Germany; U.S. environmental Protection Agency, Integrated Systems toxicology Division, Research triangle Park, NC, USA; School of Pharmacy at the Università degli Studi di Milano, toxicology, Italy; Howard University College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Washington, DC, USA; University of Washington, Department of environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication, Seattle, WA, USA; University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Baltimore, MD, USA; Biosafety Research Center, Foods, Drugs and Pesticides, Shizuoka, Japan; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; leibniz Research Centre (IfADo) at the tU Dortmund, Germany; University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark; U.S. environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Computational toxicology, Research triangle Park, NC, USA; Ceetox, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI, USA; Innsbruck Medical University, Dept. of Physiology and Medical Physics, Division Physiology, Innsbruck, Austria; Novozymes A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark