Sumitomo Chemical and BASF Collaborating on Research into a More Sustainable In Vitro System for Chemical Safety

Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and BASF, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, have agreed to collaborate on research into a more sustainable, in vitro system for chemical safety evaluation.

Recent years have seen an increase in stringent regulations for registration of agricultural chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and the demand to increase human relevance of safety studies. For these reasons, Sumitomo Chemical and BASF aim to create a system that supports the development of safe chemicals, while reducing the need for conventional animal testing.

As the first step in their research, Sumitomo Chemical and BASF aim to establish a new line of fully functional cultured cells to enable the safety evaluation of chemicals in a more efficient and more precise way than conventional methods.

Keywords: Vitro System, Chemical Safety, Agricultural Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Functional Cultured Cells, ARC Advisory Group.