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Corrositex® (In Vitro International, Placentia, CA, USA) is a 25 year old in vitro test method designed to predict the skin corrosivity potential of chemicals. Corrositex assigns chemicals both to UN packing groups I, II, III and Non-corrosive, and to GHS corrosive subcategories 1A, 1B, 1C (accepting “not Catergory 1” results also). The degree of corrosivity potential of a chemical is predicted by measuring its penetration time through calibrated biobarriers into a chemical detection system.
Rich Ulmer has been President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of InVitro International since 1994. Amy Wang has been a Director of R&D of InVitro International since 2009.
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Ulmer, R., Wang, A. (2017). The In Vitro Membrane Barrier Test Corrositex® for Skin Corrosion. In: Eskes, C., van Vliet, E., Maibach, H. (eds) Alternatives for Dermal Toxicity Testing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50353-0_12
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