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Early harvest of research results on nanosafety
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(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.
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Background
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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).
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Three cornerstones of the current
international work about NM were discussed within breakout sessions, that grouped
experts participating in the meeting:
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1) measurement, characterisation and categorisation;
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2) exposure measurement and mitigation;
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3) toxicity and ecotoxicity.
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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).
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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).
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