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Nanomaterials in textiles - and how to handle them safely
Nanomaterials and nanotechnology are increasingly used in textile manufacturing and finishing. Occupational safety and health experts and employees of the textile industry now have a... More
SUN Questionnaire on Risk Management of Nanotechnology
SUN is a project (funded by the European Commission) running between 2013 and 2017 with the aim of evaluating risks along the life-cycle of synthetic... More
Regulation of Nanomaterials at the 9th International Nano-Authorities-Dialogue in Vaduz (FL)
The 9th International Nano-Authorities-Dialogue took place on June 10 and 11, 2015, at the invitation of the Agency of Environment of the principality of Liechtenstein.... More
US EPA publishes details on proposed reporting and recordkeeping rule
As part of the Agency's approach to ensure a reasonable use and manufacturing of nanoscale materials, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed an... More
Iron oxide nanoparticles for oral drug delivery
Iron oxide nanoparticles are finding a rapidly increasing number of biomedical applications. However, a wide variety of safety concerns, especially those related to oral exposure,... More
Exposure to engineered nanomaterials found to affect epigenome
A research group of the Harvard School of Public Health, led by Dr. Demokritou, has investigated the influence of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) on cellular epigenome.... More
"Unknown Territory" - Insights into the Nano-Risk-Monitoring (Journal "Versicherungswirtschaft")
The German magazine "Versicherungswirtschaft" (insurance industry) has published an article about nanotechnology and insurance. Of special focus is the Nano-Risk-Monitoring tool developed by The Innovation... More
NIOSH publishes assessment of industrywide CNT exposure
As a reaction to wide-ranging health effects that could result from exposure to carbon nanotubes (CNT), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)... More