News & Events

Keep up to date with the latest news about IDEA, including the initiative's workshops, events and publications

2024
21 Feb

IDEA Extended Fragrance Ingredients Surveillance Study (EFISS)

Clinical surveillance study publication coming in early 2024

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2023
22 Sept

IDEA workshop on New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) – Application of the Reference Chemical Potency List (RCPL)

IDEA organized a workshop on the application of the RCPL in September 2023, with the outcomes reported below.

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2022
05 Dec

Stakeholders renew commitment to IDEA project at annual meeting, recognizing huge achievements in controlling skin allergy

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.

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2022
29 Nov

Outcomes of the 6th IDEA Annual Review meeting

All the documents from the 6th IDEA Annual Review meeting can be found on this page

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2022
07 Oct

Outcomes of the workshop on the Reference Chemicals Potency List

All the meeting documents of the workshop on the Reference Chemicals Potency List of 7 October can be found here.

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2019
10 Dec

IDEA Workshop on QRA based on NAMs: Building Trust

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).

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2019
16 Oct

IDEA Pre- and pro- haptens Workshop - October 2019

Six years in IDEA – what is our progress in understanding and managing the pre-hapten question?

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2019
04 Jun

IDEA publishes Report on Characterization and Categorization of Allergens Workshop

On 12 December 2018 IDEA held a Workshop on the Characterization and Categorization of allergens, at the Hotel Dominican, Brussels.

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2019
09 Apr

Joint Meeting of IDEA Supervisory Group and IDEA Management Team

On 9 January 2019 a Joint Meeting of the IDEA Supervisory Group (SG) and the IDEA Management Team took place in London.

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2019
04 Apr

Limonene and Linalool Hydroperoxides study published

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.

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2019
25 Feb

IDEA highlights progress at fifth Annual Review in Brussels

The European Parliament in Brussels hosts the fifth Annual Review of the IDEA Project on 25 February 2019.

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2018
12 Dec

Third IDEA Workshop on characterisation and categorisation of fragrance allergens

IDEA experts reunited on 12 December 2018 in Brussels to continue the discussion on Characterization and Categorization (C&C) of fragrance allergens.

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