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Trust and transparency in risk assessment methods

The gradual move away from animal testing as the main means of generating data for the safety assessment of chemicals has necessitated a switch to a hypothesis-driven approach. Sean Milmo reports. Instead of assessments producing certainties about the presence of hazards, they are producing hypotheses on the probabilities that hazards will or will not occur. However, exactly how to draw up hypotheses and apply them has become a big challenge for...