Abstract
The assessment of skin irritation, and in particular of skin sensitization, has undergone an evolution process over the last years, pushing forward to new heights of quality and innovation. Public and commercial in silico tools have been developed for skin sensitization and irritation, introducing the possibility to simplify the evaluation process and the development of topical products within the dogma of the computational methods, representing the new doctrine in the field of risk assessment.
The possibility of using in silico methods is particularly appealing and advantageous due to their high speed and low-cost results.
The most widespread and popular topical products are represented by cosmetics. The European Regulation 1223/2009 on cosmetic products represents a paradigm shift for the safety assessment of cosmetics transitioning from a classical toxicological approach based on animal testing, towards a completely novel strategy, where the use of animals for toxicity testing is completely banned. In this context sustainable alternatives to animal testing need to be developed, especially for skin sensitization and irritation, two critical and fundamental endpoints for the assessment of cosmetics.
The Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) methodology and the risk assessment using New Approach Methodologies (NAM) represent new frontiers to further improve the risk assessment process for these endpoints, in particular for skin sensitization.
In this chapter we present an overview of the already existing models for skin sensitization and irritation. Some examples are presented here to illustrate tools and platforms used for the evaluation of chemicals.
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Selvestrel, G., Robino, F., Russo, M.Z. (2022). In Silico Models for Skin Sensitization and Irritation. In: Benfenati, E. (eds) In Silico Methods for Predicting Drug Toxicity. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2425. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1960-5_13
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