Can Current Regulations Account for Intentionally Produced Nanoplastics?

Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh; Steffen Foss Hansen; Martina G Vijver; Esther Kentin; Maria Bille Nielsen; Anders Baun; Kristian Syberg; Iseult Lynch; Eugenia Valsami-Jones; Willie J G M Peijnenburg

doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c00965

Can Current Regulations Account for Intentionally Produced Nanoplastics?

Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh, Steffen Foss Hansen, Martina G Vijver, Esther Kentin, Maria Bille Nielsen, Anders Baun, Kristian Syberg, Iseult Lynch, Eugenia Valsami-Jones, Willie J G M Peijnenburg

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3836-3839
Number of pages	4
Journal	Environmental Science and Technology
Volume	56
Issue number	7
Early online date	14 Mar 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c00965
Publication status	Published - 5 Apr 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We acknowledge the following funding sources that have supported this work. F.A.M. acknowledges the UEF Water research programme, which is jointly funded by Saastamoinen foundation, Wihuri foundation, and Olvi foundation. F.A.M., M.J.V., and W.J.G.M.P. acknowledge the European Union Horizon 2020 project PLASTICSFATE (Grant Agreement No. 965367). M.G.V. acknowledges her ERC Consolidator Grant, ECOWIZARD (Grant Agreement No. 101002123). S.F.H., M.B.N., A.B., and K.S. acknowledge the H2020 project PlasticHeal (Grant Agreement No. 965196) and the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra Environmental Nanosafety Phase II). K.S. acknowledges the VELUX Foundation via the project MarinePlastic (Grant No. 25084). I.L. acknowledges funding from the Leverhulme Trust grant “PlasticRivers”. E.V.J. and I.L. acknowledge funding from European Union H2020 project ACEnano (Grant Agreement No. 720952).

Keywords

Microplastics
Plastics
Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
intentionally produced nanoplastics
regulatory frameworks
risk assessment
plastic pollution
risk governance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry

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H2020_RIA_ACENANO_CO-ORDINATOR
Lynch, I. & Valsami-Jones, E.
European Commission
1/01/17 → 31/12/21
Project: EU

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