Colipa’s Research on Alternatives to Animal Testing
In 1992, Colipa created the Steering Committee on Alternatives to Animal Testing (AAT). This coordinates the European cosmetics industry’s efforts to develop and gain acceptance for alternatives to the use of animals in safety evaluation.
Colipa’s work has always been based on collaboration, both between Colipa’s member companies and with other groups having a legitimate interest in the outcome of research.
Colipa collaborates with academic institutions, trade associations and other industries in addition to the following organisations:
- The German Centre for the documentation and evaluation of alternatives to animal testing (ZEBET)
- The European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS)
- The European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise
- The European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and its Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- The European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM)
Internationally, Colipa works with the United States Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM), its partners from Canada and Japan and the OECD. We also promote alternative approaches internationally, for example within the International Cooperation on Cosmetic Regulation (ICCR) and through our significant contributions to the World Congress on Alternatives.
In 2005, the cosmetics industry, and sectors involved in research into alternatives to animal testing, joined forces within the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA).