Key principles and operational practices for improved nanotechnology environmental exposure assessment

Claus Svendsen, Lee A. Walker, Marianne Matzke, Elma Lahlve, Samuel Harrison, Alison Crossley, Barry Park, Stephen Lofts, Iseult Lynch, Socorro Vázquez-Campos, Ralf Kaegi, Alexander Gogos, Christof Asbach, Geert Cornelis, Frank von der Kammer, Nico van den Brink, Claire Mays, David J. Spurgeon (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Nanotechnology is identified as a key enabling technology due to its potential to contribute to economic growth and societal well-being across industrial sectors. Sustainable nanotechnology requires a scientifically based and proportionate risk governance structure to support innovation, including a robust framework for environmental risk assessment (ERA) that ideally builds on methods established for conventional chemicals to ensure alignment and avoid duplication. Exposure assessment developed as a tiered approach is equally beneficial to nano-specific ERA as for other classes of chemicals. Here we present the developing knowledge, practical considerations and key principles need to support exposure assessment for engineered nanomaterials for regulatory and research applications.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)731-742
Number of pages12
JournalNature Nanotechnology
Volume15
Issue number9
Early online date17 Aug 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 105906 Environmental geosciences
  • 210006 Nanotechnology

Keywords

  • Environmental, health and safety issues
  • Regulation and risk management
  • Nanotechnology
  • regulatory and research applications
  • METAL-OXIDE NANOPARTICLES
  • RELEASE
  • FATE
  • SILVER NANOPARTICLES
  • ENGINEERED NANOMATERIALS
  • PARTICLE-SIZE
  • POROUS-MEDIA
  • LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT
  • TITANIUM-DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLES
  • TIO2 NANOPARTICLES

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