Performance of porcine corneal opacity and permeability assay to predict eye irritation for water-soluble cosmetic ingredients

For 43 of the test substances an equation PM was obtained to predict the MAS. Despite satisfactory statistical coefficients this algorithm is not recommended due to wide 95% confidence intervals. These results confirm the usefulness of the PCOP for water-soluble cosmetic ingredients to discriminate nonirritants (MAS ⩽ 15) and irritants (MAS > 15). For this type of ingredients the PCOP seems to be better than the BCOP to predict irritation class. Future work will be done to compare the BCOP and PCOP performances and to develop an appropriate protocol for water insoluble compounds.