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This document addresses the need for a governance response from the European bodies to establish a registry of nanomaterial-containing articles.
On 12 March, the IUF, an international federation of trade unions representing workers employed in the preparation and manufacture of food and beve...
On 12 March, the IUF, an international federation of trade unions representing workers employed in the preparation and manufacture of food and beve...
Nanotechnologies are expected to deliver big future benefits. Market research and reports have produced a slew of economic predictions. But how do...
Nanotechnology policymaking is an extremely complex process. Safety is key to building confidence and trust, and gaining community acceptance, but...
Healthcare is a priority focus of nanotechnology research, where the convergence of nanosciences, molecular and cell biology, and medicine can act...
The NanoDiode project, an EU-funded research project, runs from mid-2013 to mid-2016. It aims to create an innovative and coordinated programme of...
“The sky’s the limit in the nano world”, is a pet quip among nanotechnologists. But the pleasantry doesn’t just point up the promised progress we e...
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The EU’s REACH chemicals legislation requires industry to provide information on chemical substances for their evaluation, and this applies also to...
Nanotechnologies – techniques for manipulating matter at the atomic level – have been described as a more far-reaching technological revolution tha...
Europe should make consumer information on the presence of nanomaterials mandatory and maintain a register to trace these materials back to their s...
In mid-May, the European Commission set going a public consultation on possible measures to increase the transparency of nanomaterials on the Europ...
Nanomaterials are used in many EU workplaces despite our limited and even non-existent knowledge about the hazards they bring to human health or th...