On November 5, 2018, the European Commission’s (EC) Joint Research Center (JRC) announced the availability of the NANoREG Toolbox, an inventory of publicly available tools for the safety assessment of nanomaterials. As reported in our October 5, 2017, blog item, JRC first published the inventory as a Microsoft Excel®-based dataset. JRC scientists
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JRC Publishes NANoREG Toolbox for the Safety Assessment of Nanomaterials
By Lynn L. Bergeson & Carla N. Hutton on
Posted in International, Legal/Regulatory Issues
The European Commission (EC) Joint Research Center (JRC) has published the NANoREG Toolbox for the Safety Assessment of Nanomaterials. As reported in our May 8, 2017, blog item, JRC previously published a Science for Policy report entitled NANoREG framework for the safety assessment of nanomaterials. The report was developed within the NANoREG…
JRC Publishes Report on Harmonized Terminology for EHS Assessment of Nanomaterials
By Lynn L. Bergeson & Carla N. Hutton on
Posted in International, Legal/Regulatory Issues
The European Commission (EC) Joint Research Center (JRC) recently published a report entitled NANoREG harmonised terminology for environmental health and safety assessment of nanomaterials, developed within the NANoREG project: “A common European approach to the regulatory testing of nanomaterials.” The report states that it represents the project’s attempt at bringing common understanding and consistency…