TY - JOUR
T1 - Key principles and operational practices for improved nanotechnology environmental exposure assessment
AU - Svendsen, Claus
AU - Walker, Lee A
AU - Matzke, Marianne
AU - Lahive, Elma
AU - Harrison, Samuel
AU - Crossley, Alison
AU - Park, Barry
AU - Lofts, Stephen
AU - Lynch, Iseult
AU - Vázquez-Campos, Socorro
AU - Kaegi, Ralf
AU - Gogos, Alexander
AU - Asbach, Christof
AU - Cornelis, Geert
AU - von der Kammer, Frank
AU - van den Brink, Nico W
AU - Mays, Claire
AU - Spurgeon, David J
PY - 2020/8/17
Y1 - 2020/8/17
N2 - Nanotechnology is identified as a key enabling technology due to its potential to contribute to economic growth and societal well-being across industrial sectors. Sustainable nanotechnology requires a scientifically based and proportionate risk governance structure to support innovation, including a robust framework for environmental risk assessment (ERA) that ideally builds on methods established for conventional chemicals to ensure alignment and avoid duplication. Exposure assessment developed as a tiered approach is equally beneficial to nano-specific ERA as for other classes of chemicals. Here we present the developing knowledge, practical considerations and key principles need to support exposure assessment for engineered nanomaterials for regulatory and research applications.
AB - Nanotechnology is identified as a key enabling technology due to its potential to contribute to economic growth and societal well-being across industrial sectors. Sustainable nanotechnology requires a scientifically based and proportionate risk governance structure to support innovation, including a robust framework for environmental risk assessment (ERA) that ideally builds on methods established for conventional chemicals to ensure alignment and avoid duplication. Exposure assessment developed as a tiered approach is equally beneficial to nano-specific ERA as for other classes of chemicals. Here we present the developing knowledge, practical considerations and key principles need to support exposure assessment for engineered nanomaterials for regulatory and research applications.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089478857&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41565-020-0742-1
DO - 10.1038/s41565-020-0742-1
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32807878
SN - 1748-3387
VL - 15
SP - 731
EP - 742
JO - Nature Nanotechnology
JF - Nature Nanotechnology
IS - 9
ER -