OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals, Section 4 Guideline No. 497: Defined Approaches on Skin Sensitisation

Download or read book OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals, Section 4 Guideline No. 497: Defined Approaches on Skin Sensitisation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Defined Approach (DA) consists of a selection of information sources (e.g in silico predictions, in chemico, in vitro data) used in a specific combination, and resulting data are interpreted using a fixed data interpretation procedure (DIP) (e.g. a mathematical, rule-based model). DAs use methods in combination and are intended to overcome some limitations of the individual, stand-alone methods.