Artificial intelligence outperforms the repetitive animal tests in identifying toxic chemicals
Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 12:33
in Health & Medicine
Most consumers would be dismayed with how little we know about the majority of chemicals. Only 3 percent of industrial chemicals – mostly drugs and pesticides – are comprehensively tested. Most of the 80,000 to 140,000 chemicals in consumer products have not been tested at all or just examined superficially to see what harm they may do locally, at the site of contact and at extremely high doses.