The National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation, an affiliate of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, on May 22 said an alternative method of animal testing that the institute developed was ...

A Standard Test Method is a conclusive procedure that yields a test result. So as to achieve accurate and relevant test results, a standard test method is definite, unambiguous, and experimentally ...

The rabbit intracutaneous reactivity test has long been a valuable model for detecting irritant chemicals that can leach from polymer materials (plastics) used in drug containers, food containers, and ...

FDA guidance document Use of International Standard ISO 10993-1, "Biological evaluation of medical devices - Part 1: Evaluation and testing within a risk management process" is probably the most used ...

In my previous column, I discussed the need for standardization of test methods and the progress that has been made in recent years (see “Related Content,” at left). However, we know from that column, ...

Development of a new automated test method to measure the wax appearance temperature (WAT) of opaque crude oils with 1.0° C. precision used a modified version of American Society of Testing and ...