Category: Best Practices

Clinical testing is a key component of pre-market product testing to evaluate product safety and efficacy. Typical clinical testing involves panelist recruitment, education of product use, and product performance evaluation via panelist response.  However, if a manufacturer wishes to substantiate specific product claims, evaluate quantitative safety data specific to the

In the not too distant past, in order to conduct a skin sensitization test, either four-legged guinea pigs or human guinea pigs were used.  Advances were made and testing was refined.  Mice replaced the four-legged guinea pigs with the use of the Local Lymph Node Assay.  Now, several in vitro