The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has introduced TKPlate, a new platform that can model and predict the toxicity and toxicokinetics of chemicals used in foods, which will help reduce the amount of animal testing used in food safety assessments.
Historically, safety assessments of chemicals in food and feed have relied on evidence from animal experiments. However, there are increasing ethical and scientific motivations for replacing, reducing, and refining animal testing—a concept known as the Three Rs.