OECD announces preliminary guidance for testing manufacturered nanomaterials
Nov 30, 2009 at 03:56 PM
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has announced that it will shortly release a new document "Preliminary Guidance Notes on Sample Preparation and Dose Symmetry for the Safety Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials".
OECD Environmental Directorate's Principle Administrator, Peter Kearns, stated "...one of the most problematic areas that people have had to think about not just in safety testing but in testing of nanomaterials in general," adding that "Materials tend to agglomerate or will attach themselves to other things that are in the test medium. So there is always the possibility that people are not testing the thing that they thought they were testing". Following comment by experts round the world, OECD experts to issue a further draft of the report in about one year.
This questionnaire is the final stage of the consultation phase of the FP7 FramingNano Project which is aimed at formulating a comprehensive proposal for a future governance framework for the responsible development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies.
The results of these three consultation exercises together will form the basis of the deliberative phase of the FramingNano Project which aims to formulate proposals for a future governance framework for the responsible development of nanotechnologies within the European Union.
In this questionnaire, you are invited to provide comments and qualitative statements in a free text form and the form has been designed with this input in mind. Completion of the form should take around 45-60 minutes. On completing the questionnaire we would invite you to save it and email back to
as an attachment to your email.
Although the formal deadline for Delphi questionnaire responses has now passed, any completed questionnaires will still be welcomed by the FramingNano project team and should be sent by email to
FramingNano Multi-Stakeholder Workshop, Brussels, 26 February 2009
Jan 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM
FramingNano Multi-Stakeholder Workshop - A dialogue on the Regulation and Governance of Nanotechnologies
The FramingNano Project Consortium is pleased to announce that an important multi-stakeholder Workshop on the future regulation and governance of Nanotechnologies will take place in Brussels on Thursday 26 February 2009 from 09h00 to 17h00.
The purpose of this Workshop will be to facilitate an open dialogue amongst active stakeholders on the key issues and factors that should shape a future governance framework for the regulation of nanotechnology across a range of industry sectors.
Following keynote presentations on key environmental, health and safety (EHS) issues, key ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI), and industry needs by top-level experts, there will be three interactive workshop sessions on EHS, ELSI and possible governance models, where attendees will be encouraged to provide input and contributions concerning their positions on the future governance of nanotechnology. These inputs will be used to further refine the FramingNano consultation process and the development of a future nanotechnology governance proposal to the European Commission that reflects the positions of key stakeholders.
All nanotechnology stakeholders with an active interest in the shaping of future nanotechnology governance and regulation are encouraged to attend this Workshop.
Attendance at the Workshop is free. Please email for further details.
PLEASE NOTE: ALL PLACES FOR THIS WORKSHOP HAVE NOW BEEN FILLED.
