Scientists devise more accurate system for predicting risks of new chemical products
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 15:11
in Health & Medicine
The approach used by regulators to initially screen new chemical products for toxic effects is wrong almost half the time, according to scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They have proposed an improvement that could increase accuracy to as much as 85 percent, saving millions of dollars and years of development time for new drugs and other products while improving safety.