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Digital and AI workflows for regulatory toxicology.

Workflow design and AI-enabled support for regulatory toxicology — built around the questions an evaluator asks, the validation evidence the file needs, and the boundary between automated outputs and expert judgement.

Digital and AI workflows for regulatory toxicology
Frameworks
ISO/IEC 27001 · SOC2
FAIR data · PRISMA 2020
Standards
EFSA systematic review
Klimisch · ToxRTool · CRED
Approaches
Workflow design
Validation · Governance
Outputs
Substance databases
Pipelines · IUCLID-ready
What we do
Workflows where the toxicology and the automation are designed together — not separately.

Most off-the-shelf tools exist for regulatory toxicology tasks. The value lies in how they are integrated, validated, and aligned with the regulatory question the workflow is meant to address. We design digital workflows for regulatory toxicology drawing on direct experience of authority scrutiny — and deliver implementation through established technology partners selected for each engagement. NexGenTox defines what the workflow needs to produce, where automation adds value, where expert review stays, and how the validation is documented. Implementation partners bring the development, data engineering, and platform capability to build solutions that hold up under both regulatory and technical review.

Question 01
What's the actual bottleneck?
Is the problem the volume of data, the time taken per record, the inconsistency across cycles, or the rework triggered when authorities ask how the output was built?
Question 02
Where does expert judgement need to stay?
Which steps in the workflow are procedural and which require expert judgement at every instance?
Question 03
How will the workflow be audited?
Can each output be traced back to its inputs, with version control, processing logs, and decision records sufficient to support an authority question or an internal review?
Question 04
How is the data secured?
Where the workflow handles confidential or pre-submission data, what are the data security and access control arrangements — and how is confidentiality maintained when implementation partners are involved?
Digital workflows for regulatory toxicology

Workflow design and validation led by regulatory toxicologists; implementation delivered with established technology partners holding ISO 27001 / SOC2 certifications.

ISO/IEC 27001 · SOC2 certifications
Scope of support

Where we step in.

Across the regulatory toxicology workflow, from data structuring to governance — developed in collaboration with our technology partners.

Regulatory toxicology workflow interface

From substance portfolio databases to screening workflows — automation aligned with the regulatory question.

FAIR · PRISMA 2020 · Klimisch · IUCLID
01
Substance portfolio databases
Where substance tracking has outgrown spreadsheets, we design the database structure that replaces it. Each substance record built around the client's regulatory needs — typically identity, regulatory status, study inventory, dossier links, and renewal triggers, with regulatory toxicology indexing (e.g. endpoint categories, reliability scores, key study flags, framework classifications) built into the schema.
FAIR data principles
02
Literature search & surveillance automation
Structured workflows for systematic literature searches and ongoing surveillance, with AI-assisted pre-screening at title and abstract level to narrow the candidate pool for expert review. Each search documented and version-controlled so updates at renewal or post-approval can re-execute against the documented protocol.
EFSA systematic review guidance · PRISMA 2020
03
Data compilation & summarisation
Templates and automated pipelines for compiling toxicological and ecotoxicological data into structured formats — Excel evidence tables, Word-based endpoint summaries, or IUCLID-compatible templates, depending on downstream use. Includes study-level metadata, traceable links to source documents, and reliability scoring through structured tools, with expert review and final judgement retained by the assessor.
Klimisch · ToxRTool · CRED · IUCLID-compatible formats
04
Screening workflow design
Workflows for structured hazard screening across candidate substances or portfolios, drawing on literature data, in silico predictions, structural-alert evidence, and defined regulatory databases. Screening criteria defined by expert toxicologists; the automation runs the criteria consistently and surfaces flagged candidates for review. Applicable to early R&D triage, ED screening of co-formulants and impurities against regulatory databases, sustainability checks, and portfolio-level safer-substance reviews.
Hazard screening · Portfolio review
When clients engage us

What prompts the call.

A regulatory toxicology team reviewing a workflow
The first conversation Most engagements begin with one workflow under visible pressure — too much data, too much manual rework, or processes that no longer scale with the portfolio.

Regulatory teams whose substance portfolio has outgrown spreadsheet tracking. Toxicology teams rebuilding literature screening logs each renewal cycle. R&D groups screening candidate substances against hazard criteria ahead of testing. Companies running recurring evidence compilation across multiple substances and submissions.

Case study

Cross-substance trend analysis for STOT RE classification waiver argument.

Anonymised engagement

A regulatory toxicology team was preparing the CLP classification argument for a substance flagged for STOT RE (specific target organ toxicity, repeated exposure) based on findings at high dose levels. The team's position was that the effects were secondary to systemic toxicity at exposures unlikely to occur in realistic use, and that the substance should not warrant STOT RE classification. Building the argument required showing that the regulatory community had reached similar conclusions for structurally and toxicologically related substances.

Challenge

Each classification argument needed cross-substance precedent — but manual data extraction across ECHA's harmonised classification database, CLP Annex VI, and dossier-level data was time-intensive and inconsistent. Each substance assessment involved repeating the same extraction work across the same sources, with no structured record of what the team had already learned about the pattern of classification decisions in this chemical space.

Approach

  1. 01
    Defined the substances of interest — the target compound and a structurally and toxicologically related cohort against which the classification trend would be evaluated.
  2. 02
    Built the workflow in collaboration with the technology partner — automated scraping of ECHA's harmonised classification database and CLP Annex VI for the cohort, extraction of STOT classification outcomes and the underlying study data, and structured comparison output showing dose levels at which effects were observed, classification decisions reached, and the rationale where documented.
  3. 03
    Delivered the analytical output as structured trend tables formatted for direct inclusion in the classification justification dossier — supporting the expert toxicological argument that the substance's effect profile aligned with substances where STOT RE classification had not been considered warranted.

Outcome. A workflow that surfaces the regulatory classification trend across substance cohorts in a single structured output, replacing manual data extraction. For the case substance, the structured trend analysis provided cross-substance precedent supporting the classification waiver argument. The workflow has since been re-run for other substances in the team's portfolio facing similar classification questions.

Questions we hear

Five questions, answered straight.

Five questions that come up early in most digital workflow engagements. If yours doesn't fit, send it through anyway — we'd rather hear the question than guess at it.

1

Where does digital workflow support actually add value?

In high-volume, repetitive tasks where structure and traceability matter more than judgement at each step — literature collation, evidence tracking, data compilation, and template-based summarisation. Less value in tasks where the regulatory question is genuinely complex and requires expert interpretation at each step.

2

How is regulatory compliance maintained when using digital tools?

Through documented validation, version control, audit trails, and clear scope-of-use documentation for each tool. Computational outputs are integrated into the assessment with expert review, and the boundary between automated outputs and expert decisions is recorded.

3

Who builds the workflow — NexGenTox or a technology partner?

Both. NexGenTox defines the workflow's regulatory purpose, the data structure, the validation expectations, and the expert decision boundaries. The implementation partner brings the development, data engineering, and platform capability to build the system. The toxicology and the technical build are designed together from the start.

4

What about data security and confidentiality?

Implementation partners are selected for ISO 27001 and SOC2 conformances and other relevant certifications appropriate to the engagement. Confidentiality, access control, and data handling arrangements are documented as part of the workflow design, with NexGenTox retaining oversight of the regulatory toxicology data flow.

5

Do you provide training and implementation support?

Yes. Workflows are handed over with the documentation and training the client's team needs to run them effectively — covering version control, decision boundaries between automated and expert steps, and the operational SOPs the team will rely on. Implementation partners contribute training on the technical layer where needed.

Start the conversation

Tell us the workflow, the bottleneck, the data.

Tell us the workflow under pressure, the data volumes involved, and the regulatory context. We'll come back with an initial scope and a fit assessment.