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A key part of the safety assessment for cosmetic ingredients is the evaluation of skin sensitization, i.e. their potency to induce an immune response in the skin involving the innate and the adaptive immune system. For decades the murine local lymph node assay (LLNA) has been key for assessing the threshold dose per exposed skin area at, or below which, contact allergy induction does not occur in...