Keep up to date with the latest news about IDEA, including the initiative's workshops, events and publications
IDEA organized a workshop reporting on the progress of developing an IDEA strategy to derive a starting point (NESIL) based on NAMs for use in the Quantitative risk Assessment, with the outcomes reported below.
Related to the IDEA sponsored Extended Fragrance Ingredients Surveillance Study (EFFIS)
Clinical surveillance study publication coming in early 2024
IDEA organized a workshop on the application of the RCPL in September 2023, with the outcomes reported below.
Brussels, 05 December 2022 – Stakeholders at the International Dialogue for the Evaluation of Allergens (IDEA) Annual Review meeting on 29 November 2022 reaffirmed their commitment to the project. Underway for nearly 10 years, IDEA seeks ways to improve consumer protection by bringing together various stakeholders including the fragrance industry, the dermatological community, and policy makers to build a new framework to assess fragrance allergens.
All the documents from the 6th IDEA Annual Review meeting can be found on this page
All the meeting documents of the workshop on the Reference Chemicals Potency List of 7 October can be found here.
In the effort towards a QRA on skin sensitization based on new approach methodologies (NAMs) instead of the LLNA, IDEA provides a multi-stakeholder forum to facilitate the generation of a guidance framework based on NAMs to identify a NESIL for fragrance ingredients (FIs).
Six years in IDEA – what is our progress in understanding and managing the pre-hapten question?
On 12 December 2018 IDEA held a Workshop on the Characterization and Categorization of allergens, at the Hotel Dominican, Brussels.
On 9 January 2019 a Joint Meeting of the IDEA Supervisory Group (SG) and the IDEA Management Team took place in London.
IDEA's work on a market surveillance study on Limonene and Linalool hydroperoxides in finished consumer products has been published in Food and Chemical Toxicology.