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Dear Linda Birr-Pixton,

Thank you for your information request, which we received on 1 May. We
have understood your request to be for the following information:

The Department of Health and Social Care, confirmed in response to FOI
1500415 that you are regulatory body responsible for the batch testing of
products for eye irritation.
What advice are you, providing the laboratories providing the batch
testing of products for eye irritation given that you subscribe to the
3R's and will know that all eye irritation tests have replaced 'in vivo'
tests with 'in vitro'.
Please could you direct me to the guidance you are providing on this
matter.

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Dear Linda Birr-Pixton,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 1st
May.

Please find the response to your request attached.

Yours sincerely,

Healthcare, Quality and Access Group

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 4PU
Telephone 020 3080 6000

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