Type of NAM, Concepts Product Type Country / Agency Frameworks, Roadmaps, Strategic plans, Guidance, and other documentation for the implementation of NAMs
Roadmaps, Strategic plans
In vitro, in silico, in chemico Industrial chemical, Household products
Pesticides
US / EPA OPPT; EPA OPP Interim science policy: use of alternative approaches for skin sensitization as a replacement for laboratory animal testing ([b@349582]a)
IVIVE, AOP, IATA, DA, In vitro, In Chemico, In silico, RA Industrial chemical, Household products US / EPA OPPT Strategic plan to promote the development and implementation of alternative test methods within the TSCA program EPA ([b@349582]b)
In vitro, RA, Industrial chemical, Household products US / EPA New approach methods work plan, reducing use of animals in chemical testing EPA (US EPA, 2021b)
Industrial chemical, Household products Canada / HC HECSB Fact sheet series: Topics in risk assessment of substances under CEPA (Health Canada, 2023)
In silico, In vitro, In chemico, RA, omics Industrial chemical, Household products Canada / HC HECSB; HC PMRA Canadian regulatory perspective on next generation risk assessments for pest control products and industrial chemicals [@354300]
RA, WoE, In silico, In vitro Industrial chemicals ECHA 4th report on the use of alternatives to testing on animals for REACH [@349449]
In vitro, In chemico, DA Pesticides US/EPA OPP Process for evaluating & implementing alternative approaches to traditional in vivo acute toxicity studies for FIFRA regulatory use (US EPA, 2016b)
In vitro, in chemico All US / ICCVAM Validation, Qualification, and Regulatory Acceptance of New Approach Methodologies - A Report of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) Validation Workgroup (VWG) March 2024 [@349486]
OoC All Europe ORCHID project (Organ-on-Chip development) - a roadmap for organ-on-chip technology [@349513; @349512]
General Pesticides Europe / EFSA Development of a Roadmap for Action on New Approach Methodologies in Risk Assessment [@349456]
Organ - on - a chip All Europe / JRC Organ on-chip roadmap towards standardisation [@349495]
Machine learning All Europe / EFSA Machine Learning Techniques applied in risk assessment related to food safety [@349455]
General All US/ ICCVAM A Strategic Roadmap for Establishing New Approaches to Evaluate the Safety of Chemicals and Medical Products in the United States
Exposure Europe The European exposure science strategy 2020–2030
General All Europe / EFSA Development of a Roadmap for Action on New Approach Methodologies in Risk Assessment [@349463]
Frameworks / Guidance documents accepted by regulatory bodies
Read - Across Industrial chemicals ECHA Read-Across Assessment Framework (RAAF) [@349448]
In vitro Pesticides US /EPA OPP Use of an alternate testing framework for classification of eye irritation potential of EPA pesticide products (US EPA, 2015)
Pesticides US / EPA OPP; Canada / HC PMRA ReCAAP: A reporting framework to support a weight of evidence safety assessment without long-term rodent bioassays (Hilton et al., 2022)
QSAR models All International/ OECD (Q)SAR Assessment Framework: Guidance No. 386 for the regulatory assessment of (Quantitative) Structure - Activity Relationship models, predictions, and results based on multiple predictions [@349544]
Omics All International / OECD Omics Reporting Framework (OORF): Guidance No. 390 on reporting elements for the regulatory use of omics data from laboratory-based toxicology studies
PBK All International / US EPA; FDA and JRC Reporting template from drugs expanded to environmental chemicals- PBPK model reporting template for chemical risk assessment applications [@349578]
In vitro, in silico, in chemico Industrial chemical, Household products US / CPSC Guidance on Alternative Test Methods and Integrated Testing Approaches (CPSC, 2022)
QSAR models All International/ OECD Guidance document No 69 on the validation of (Quantitative) Structure-Activity relationships [(Q)SAR] models [@349528]
PBK models All International/ OECD Guidance document No. 331 on the characterisation, validation and reporting of Physiologically Based Kinetic (PBK) models for regulatory purposes [@349541]
In vitro, in chemico All International / OECD Guidance Document No. 286 on Good In Vitro Method Practices (GIVIMP), OECD Series on Testing and Assessment [@349535]
In vitro, in chemico All International / OECD Guidance Document No. 211 for Describing Non-Guideline In Vitro Test Methods, OECD Series on Testing and Assessment [@349531]
DA All International / OECD Guidance Document No. 255 on the Reporting of Defined Approaches to be Used Within Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment [@349534]
IATA, AOP All International / OECD Guidance Document No. 260 for the Use of Adverse Outcome Pathways in Developing Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATA) [@349532]
Pesticides US / EPA OPP Guidance for waiving or bridging of acute (US EPA, 2012, 2016a, 2020) and repeat dose (US EPA, 2012) toxicity tests
for pesticides (for formulations and single-active ingredients)
Pesticides Canada / HC PMRA Guidance for waiving or bridging of mammalian acute toxicity tests for pesticides (Health Canada, 2013); Acute Dermal Toxicity Study Waiver (Health Canada, 2017)
In silico, In vitro, RA Pesticides Europe / EFSA Guidance on dermal absorption [@349455]
PBK models All International / OECD Characterisation and application of physiologically based pharmacokinetic models in risk assessment [@349593]
Read - Across All International / OECD Guidance Document No. 194 on Grouping of Chemicals, Second Edition [@349534]
IATA all International/OECD Guidance Document No. 255 onon the Reporting of Defined Approaches to be Used Within Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment [@349533]
All Cosmetics EU / SCCS The SCCS Notes of Guidance for the Testing of Cosmetic Ingredients and their Safety Evaluation 12th revision
Omics All Europe GLP for omics - Framework for the quality assurance of omics technologies considering GLP requirements [@349496]
WoE All International / OECD Guidance document No. 311 on the Guiding Principles and Key Elements for Establishing a Weight of Evidence for Chemical Assessment [@349537]
List of Alternative Test Methods
In vitro Industrial chemical, Household products US / EPA O
PPT
List of alternative test methods and strategies (or new approach methodologies [NAMs]), Second update: 4 February 2021 (US EPA, 2021a)
In vitro, In chemico All Europe / EURL ECVAM TSAR - Tracking System for Alternative methods towards Regulatory acceptance Overview of non-animal methods that have been proposed for regulatory safety or efficacy testing of chemicals or biological
Agents (EURL ECVAM, n.d.)
In vitro, In chemico, In silico, Waiving All US / NTP, NICEATM List of alternative methods accepted by US Agencies [@349524]
In vitro, In chemico, In silico All Japan / JaCVAM List of alternative test methods endorsed by JaCVAM for regulatory uses [@349488; @349489]
In vitro, In chemico All Korea / KoCVAM List of test guidelines for alternative test methods in Korea [@349501]
Project/Initiative, Other documents
General drugs, chemicals Europe EU-ToxRisk – An Integrated European ‘Flagship’ Programme Driving Mechanism-based Toxicity Testing and Risk Assessment for the 21st century - https://eu-toxrisk.eu
General All Europe Next-generation risk assessment of chemicals – Rolling out a human-centric testing strategy to drive 3R implementation: The RISK-HUNT3R project perspective - https://www.risk-hunt3r.eu/
General contaminants, chemicals, drugs Europe Euromix - A tiered strategy for risk assessment of mixtures of multiples chemicals - https://www.euromixproject.eu/index.html
TK, IVIVE PBPK food/feed improvement compounds, drugs Europe / EFSA EFSA - TK plate [@349594]
TK, IVIVE PBPK chemicals, food/feed improvement compounds, Europe Neurosome and HBM4EU [@349432]
General All Europe ONTOX - https://ontox-project.eu/project
General All Europe EHEN cluster -The European Human Exposome Network is the world’s largest network of projects studying the impact of environmental exposure on human health - https://www.humanexposome.eu/
General All International PARC - Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals aims to support risk assessors and risk managers to respond to current and future challenges, the PARC aims to stimulate research and innovation in chemicals risk assessment by developing a collaborative network with public research entities - https://www.eu-parc.eu/
General All US / EPA APCRA - Accelerating the Pace of Chemical Risk Assessment is an international government-to-government initiative whose aim to promote collaboration and dialogue on the scientific and regulatory needs for the application and acceptance of NAMs in regulatory decision making - https://www.epa.gov/chemical-research/accelerating-pace-chemical-risk-assessment-apcra
General All Europe ASPIS Cluster - joint collaboration of the H2020 funded projects ONTOX, PrecisionTOX, RISK-HUNT3R and JRC and represents Europe’s effort towards the sustainable, animal-free and reliable chemical risk assessment of tomorrow - https://aspis-cluster.eu/
General Cosmetics International ICCR - International Cooperation on Cosmetics Regulation voluntary international group of cosmetics regulatory authorities from Brazil, Canada, Chinese Taipei, the European Union, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, and the United States who meet on an annual basis to discuss cosmetics safety and regulation, as well as enter into a constructive dialogue with relevant cosmetics industry trade associations - https://www.iccr-cosmetics.org/
General All US / NICETAM ICE - Integrated Chemical Environment addresses the data needs frequently expressed by NICEATM stakeholders and provides high-quality curated data and appropriate tools to support development and evaluation of new, revised, and alternative methods - https://ice.ntp.niehs.nih.gov/
In vitro bioactivity Industrial chemicals Household products Canada / HC HECSB Science approach document - Bioactivity exposure ratio: Application in priority setting and risk assessment (Health Canada, 2021)
Industrial chemicals ECHA How to use alternatives to animal testing to fulfil the information requirements for REACH registration ECHA (ECHA, 2016)
Europe / EFSA Advancing human health risk assessment (Lanzoni et al., 2019)
In vitro, In chemico Pesticides Europe / EFSA Development of IATA case studies on DNT risk assessment (EFSA Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues (EFSA PPR Panel et al., 2021)
IATA All International/OECD Develop IATAs for complex endpoints together with reporting and assessment strategies. Several relevant endpoints e.g. DNT, systemic toxicity, read-across (https://www.oecd.org/chemicalsafety/risk-assessment/iata/)
RAx All International EU-ToxRisk advisory document describing the different assessment steps of a read-across approach enriched with NAM data. NAMs to support RAx with regard to toxikodynamic and kinetic properties [@349562]