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This study by scientists at Alberto-Culver Co. and the Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) demonstrated that major personal care and cosmetics companies are basing their internal ocular product safety evaluation programs on MatTek’s EpiOcular in vitro human corneal tissue... Read More

ECVAM/Colipa RhT test methods prospective validation study: The objective of the Eye Irritation Validation Study (EIVS) is to formally evaluate the scientific validity of the SkinEthicTM Human Corneal Epithelium (HCE) Short Exposure (SE), Long Exposure (LE) and test strategy and... Read More

A prospective validation study of two Reconstructed human Tissuebased in vitro test methods (EpiOcular™ EIT and SkinEthic™ HCE) was conducted by EURL ECVAM and Cosmetics Europe to evaluate their usefulness to identify chemicals as either not classified for serious eye... Read More

One component in the safety assessment of many types of products is the evaluation of their potential to cause eye injury. Eye irritation is defined as “the production of changes in the eye following the application of test substance to... Read More

This study by scientists at Alberto-Culver Company and the Institute for In Vitro Sciences demonstrated that MatTek’s EpiOcular in vitro human corneal tissue equivalent is an excellent in vitro model for performing the ocular safety evaluation of multiple surfactant systems... Read More