ALTEX: Current Issue: 3/09
 Editorial
Franz P. Gruber
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Thomas Hartung and Sebastian Hoffmann:
Food for thought … on in silico methods in toxicology
MAIN ARTICLES Angelo Vedani, Martin Smiesko, Morena Spreafico, Ourania Peristera and Max Dobler:
VirtualToxLab™ – In silico prediction of the toxic (endocrine-disrupting) potential of drugs, chemicals and natural products. Two years and 2,000 compounds of experience: a progress report
Ina Hagelschuer, Peter Hauff, Anne Strube, Sanna-Maria Käkönen and Georges von Degenfeld:
Luminescent imaging technology as an opportunity to reduce and refine animal experiments: light at the end of the tunnel? (Summary only)
t4-REPORT
Costanza Rovida and Thomas Hartung:
Re-evaluation of animal numbers and costs for in vivo tests to accomplish REACH legislation requirements for chemicals - a report by the Transatlantic Think Tank for Toxicology (t4)
ECHA press release:
New study inaccurate on the number of test animals for REACH SHORT COMMUNICATIONSOlavi Pelkonen, Ari Tolonen, Timo Rousu, Larissa Tursas, Miia Turpeinen, Juho Hokkanen, Jouko Uusitalo, Michel Bouvier d’Yvoire and Sandra Coecke:
Comparison of metabolic stability and metabolite identification of 55 ECVAM/ICCVAM validation compounds between human and rat liver homogenates and microsomes—a preliminary analysis (Summary only)
Richard Vogel:
Alternatives to the use of animals in safety testing as required by the EU-Cosmetics Directive 2009 (Summary only) POSTION STATEMENT Interspecies crosses: aspects of animal protection
A position statement of the Ethics Committee for Animal Studies of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) and the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) CONFERENCE REPORTRome, Italy: 7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in the life Sciences
Kenya: First Pan-African Seminar on Alternatives to Animal experiments | 
