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Our multi-disciplinary collaboration with PETA Science Consortium International has been recognised with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Replication Prize, highlighting progress in strengthening reproducibility and advancing animal free research.

Co-developed by Unilever and NICEATM, the SARA-ICE Defined Approach has been added to OECD GL497 and provides a quantitative prediction of chemical skin sensitization potency in humans.

A FoodDrinkEurope working group featuring several SERS scientists have published a state-of-the-science paper calling for regulatory adoption of non-animal New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and Next Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA) approaches.

Unilever signs collaboration contract with China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA) to advance food safety in China and host a series activities in China International Food Safety and Quality (CIFSQ) conferences to support use of New Approach Methodologies...

We are delighted to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIES), a research institution directly under the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China.

Unilever and several partners have developed a non-animal framework for occupational next generation risk assessment (NGRA) which can be followed to ensure the safety of workers.

New network to drive harmonisation in product environmental sustainability assessment

Unilever has worked closely with the UK NC3Rs and the British Toxicology Society (BTS) to develop a vision for a world-leading regulatory framework that firmly embeds modern, non-animal science in chemical safety testing.

The science underpinning the safety assessment of microbiome perturbations induced by chemicals, prebiotics and probiotics was recently discussed at a UK Microbiology Society workshop organised in partnership with Unilever.

Dr Katy Armstrong has been appointed as a visiting lecturer at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield. Her appointment is part of a new partnership to train the next generation of life cycle assesmment scientists.

SEAC contributes LCA expertise to first-ever UK cross-sector collaboration aimed at converting industrial waste gases into chemicals that can be used to manufacture superior and more sustainable consumer products.

SEAC laboratories achieve gold award accreditation first time around in recognition for their long commitment and concerted efforts towards creating sustainable laboratories.