Company type | Private |
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Industry | Toxicology testing |
Founded | 1961 |
Headquarters | |
Website |
www |
The British Industrial Biological Research Association was a government-run research association in the UK, and is now a private company, that investigates toxicology of commercial products.
The organisation was formed in 1961 by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). [1] The new buildings in Surrey were to cost £56,000, and would be fully open in 1962; at the time there were 52 British research associations.
The site has been known as the BIBRA Research Laboratories. The site mainly investigated the toxicology of food products ( additives) and cosmetics. [2] Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited the site on 8 June 1969. [3]
The private company was later known as BIBRA by the late 1980s. [4] [5] It has worked with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and MRC. [6]
The association produced the international journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and Toxicology in Vitro. [7]
The BIBRA Laboratories have worked with the subjects of -
Today BIBRA is situated on the A237; it was previously further west, on the B278. The former British Industrial Biological Research Association was in northern Surrey.[ citation needed]
Company type | Private |
---|---|
Industry | Toxicology testing |
Founded | 1961 |
Headquarters | |
Website |
www |
The British Industrial Biological Research Association was a government-run research association in the UK, and is now a private company, that investigates toxicology of commercial products.
The organisation was formed in 1961 by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). [1] The new buildings in Surrey were to cost £56,000, and would be fully open in 1962; at the time there were 52 British research associations.
The site has been known as the BIBRA Research Laboratories. The site mainly investigated the toxicology of food products ( additives) and cosmetics. [2] Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited the site on 8 June 1969. [3]
The private company was later known as BIBRA by the late 1980s. [4] [5] It has worked with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and MRC. [6]
The association produced the international journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and Toxicology in Vitro. [7]
The BIBRA Laboratories have worked with the subjects of -
Today BIBRA is situated on the A237; it was previously further west, on the B278. The former British Industrial Biological Research Association was in northern Surrey.[ citation needed]