SafeWorldbyDesign Safer Design for a safer world

SafeWorldbyDesign is a new integrated service-oriented safety assessment platform to support the design of intelligent, safer products. 

Its founding partners - Edelweiss Connect, Eurosafe, SBX Corporation, Vertex Labs and ToxPlanet -  bring individual expertise in the best emerging research methods in toxicology, biology, chemistry, risk assessment and computer science. Together, they are building a one-stop shop for designing a safer world.

Safer by design thinking builds safety into products and materials from the earliest design phase - way before such products ever go to market. This helps protect the safety of consumers and the environment. It also makes good business sense. Ask any company that has had to cancel/recall a faulty product or faced bad press or legal action.  

Combined expertise for integrated solutions 

SaferWorldbyDesign integrates in silico and in vitro methods to develop standard and premium Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATAs), including methods that support ingredient screening, product design and the preparation of regulatory dossiers.

Together, the SaferWorldbyDesign partners supply commercial solutions, products and services to:

  • Help industry incorporate the latest methods from complex science into business processes;
  • Prepare evidence and regulatory dossiers;
  • Promote the design and management of safer products throughout the life cycle;
  • Translate new assessment methods to best practices;
  • Support alternative methods and implementation of 3Rs principles on the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of animal testing.

Safer World by Design solutions

  • In vitro testing/assays (e.g., DPRA, KeratinoSens and h-CLAT for skin sensitization) on compounds for the consumer products, pharma, chemical, food industry
  • Harmonised data integration supporting IATAs (EdelweissData™) 
  • Pre-clinical safety testing 
  • Formulation assessments
  • Toxicological and regulatory expertise and advice 
  • Safety assessments
  • IATAs for skin safety assessment (SaferSkin™)
  • Text mining and aggregation to deliver actionable insights

SaferWorldbyDesign Solutions

SaferSkin™ includes an easy-to-use application based on OECD-defined and industry tested approaches to predict the skin sensitisation potential of ingredients. SaferSkin™ assesses input data and assigns a sensitisation category and the level of confidence in the prediction (link) + Eurosafe assays as broader offering of integrated in silico and in vitro services
 
EdelweissData™ a platform for harmonised data integration, supporting the use of multiple datasets with seamless sharing of data and metadata. EdelweissData™ prepares, curates, harmonises, standardises and brings together data from different formats, different sources, and different labs.

Taxila is the text analytics and intelligence platform developed by SBX corporation. 

ToxPlanet offers the world’s largest database relevant to chemical safety. It can save you an extraordinary amount of time by searching 500-plus specialised websites - all at the same time, using a normalised index. ToxPlanet offers access to hundreds of databases/collections, including toxicological profiles, monographs, scientific opinions, risk assessments, GHS classifications, hazard assessments, regulatory submissions, safety data sheets (SDSs), drug information, regulatory and advisory lists, and much more.