| Posted: Sep 19, 2010 |
Early harvest of research results on nanosafety |
| (Nanowerk News) Last April, the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (ICHP) Nanobiosciences Unit of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), of the European Commission organised a 2-day workshop to present an overview of various aspects of hazard, exposure and risk assessment of nanomaterials. |
| Background |
| The Joint CASG-Nano and ENPRA Workshop on Early Harvest of Research Results on Nanosafety, held in Ispra the 14-15th of April 2010, intended to present and share among participants the state-of-the-art of key areas of nanosafety from finalised and ongoing research projects, to support the initiatives to implement European chemical legislation REACH for nanomaterials (NM). |
| Three cornerstones of the current international work about NM were discussed within breakout sessions, that grouped experts participating in the meeting: |
| 1) measurement, characterisation and categorisation; |
| 2) exposure measurement and mitigation; |
| 3) toxicity and ecotoxicity. |
| The Workshop was organized by the Nanobiosciences Unit of the European Commission's Institute for Health and Consumer Protection at the Joint Research Centre (IHCP/JRC) together with the Unit Chemicals-REACH of Directorate General Enterprise and Industry (DG ENTR). |
| Invited participants included: CASG Nano (Competent Authorities Sub Group on Nanomaterials) members and observers, specifically nominated experts to follow the REACH Implementation Projects on Nanomaterials (RIP-oNs) 2 and 3, the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) led consortium for developing the RIPoN2-3, ENPRA (Engineered Nanoparticles Risk Assessment, FP7 Project) partners, NanoTEST (FP 7 Project) partners, and other key research projects as well as members of the OECD Secretariat and its Working Party of manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN). |
| Source: Institute for Health and Consumer Protection |
