[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 232 (Friday, December 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70268-70269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26594]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Public Health Service


National Toxicology Program; National Institute of Environmental 
Health Sciences (NIEHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH) Notice of 
Additional Data and Analyses for the Assessment of the Current 
Validation Status of In Vitro Testing Methods for Identifying Potential 
Ocular Irritants

Summary

    The National Toxicology Program (NTP) Interagency Center for the

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Evaluation of Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) recently published a 
notice in the Federal Register (Vol. 69, No. 212, pages 64081-2, 
November 3, 2004) announcing the availability of and requesting 
comments on Background Review Documents (BRDs) for four in vitro assays 
proposed for identifying potential ocular corrosives and severe 
irritants. Notice is hereby given of the availability of additional 
data and analyses for the Hen's Egg Test-Chorion Allantoic Membrane 
(HET-CAM) assay. Copies of the additional analyses and any other 
updates on information relevant to this meeting can be obtained on the 
ICCVAM/NICEATM Web site at http://iccvam.niehs.nih.gov or by contacting 
NICEATM [NIEHS, P.O. Box 12233, MD EC-17, Research Triangle Park, NC, 
27709, (phone) (919) 541-3398, (fax) (919) 541-0947, (e-mail) 
[email protected]].
    Interested parties are invited to check the ICCVAM/NICEATM Web site 
periodically for additional information and/or analyses for this 
meeting.

    Dated: November 23, 2004.
Samuel H. Wilson,
Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
[FR Doc. 04-26594 Filed 12-2-04; 8:45 am]
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