Novel approaches for food safety risk assessment - Effort of ILSI Japan

Abstract

ILSI Japan has launched and is working on an alternative animal testing promotion project in the area of food safety. Which aims to promote the development of Animal testing alternatives that can be used for food safety risk assessment. We are working on the following three major themes in cooperation with the academia. "Collecting information on the latest technologies", "Promoting research for accelerating the substitution of animal testing with alternative methods", and "Disseminating information for consensus- building". This talk introduces the latest efforts in the project.