TY - JOUR
T1 - Harmonizing across environmental nanomaterial testing media for increased comparability of nanomaterial datasets
AU - Geitner, Nicholas K.
AU - Hendren, Christine Ogilvie
AU - Cornelis, Geert
AU - Kaegi, Ralf
AU - Lead, Jamie R.
AU - Lowry, Gregory V.
AU - Lynch, Iseult
AU - Nowack, Bernd
AU - Petersen, Elijah
AU - Bernhardt, Emily
AU - Brown, Scott
AU - Garidel-Thoron, Camille de
AU - Hanson, Jaydee
AU - Harper, Stacey
AU - Jones, Kim
AU - Kammer, Frank von der
AU - Kennedy, Alan
AU - Kidd, Justin
AU - Matson, Cole
AU - Metcalfe, Chris D.
AU - Pedersen, Joel
AU - Peijnenburg, Willie J. G. M.
AU - Quik, Joris T. K.
AU - Rodrigues, Sónia M.
AU - Rose, Jerome
AU - Sayre, Phil
AU - Simonin, Marie
AU - Svendsen, Claus
AU - Tanguay, Robert
AU - Tefenkji, Nathalie
AU - Teunenbroek, Tom van
AU - Thies, Gregory
AU - Tian, Yuan
AU - Rice, Jacelyn
AU - Turner, Amalia
AU - Liu, Jie
AU - Unrine, Jason
AU - Vance, Marina
AU - White, Jason C.
AU - Wiesner, Mark R.
PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - The chemical composition and properties of environmental media determine nanomaterial (NM) transport, fate, biouptake, and organism response. To compare and interpret experimental data, it is essential that sufficient context be provided for describing the physical and chemical characteristics of the setting in which a nanomaterial may be present. While the nanomaterial environmental, health and safety (NanoEHS) field has begun harmonization to allow data comparison and re-use (e.g. using standardized materials, defining a minimum set of required material characterizations), there is limited guidance for standardizing test media. Since most of the NM properties driving environmental behaviour and toxicity are medium-dependent, harmonization of media is critical. A workshop in March 2016 at Duke University identified five categories of test media: aquatic testing media, soil and sediment testing media, biological testing media, engineered systems testing media and product matrix testing media. For each category of test media, a minimum set of medium characteristics to report in all NM tests is recommended. Definitions and detail level of the recommendations for specific standardized media vary across these media categories. This reflects the variation in the maturity of their use as a test medium and associated measurement techniques, variation in utility and relevance of standardizing medium properties, ability to simplify standardizing reporting requirements, and in the availability of established standard reference media. Adoption of these media harmonization recommendations will facilitate the generation of integrated comparable datasets on NM fate and effects. This will in turn allow testing of the predictive utility of functional assay measurements on NMs in relevant media, support investigation of first principles approaches to understand behavioral mechanisms, and support categorization strategies to guide research, commercial development, and policy.
AB - The chemical composition and properties of environmental media determine nanomaterial (NM) transport, fate, biouptake, and organism response. To compare and interpret experimental data, it is essential that sufficient context be provided for describing the physical and chemical characteristics of the setting in which a nanomaterial may be present. While the nanomaterial environmental, health and safety (NanoEHS) field has begun harmonization to allow data comparison and re-use (e.g. using standardized materials, defining a minimum set of required material characterizations), there is limited guidance for standardizing test media. Since most of the NM properties driving environmental behaviour and toxicity are medium-dependent, harmonization of media is critical. A workshop in March 2016 at Duke University identified five categories of test media: aquatic testing media, soil and sediment testing media, biological testing media, engineered systems testing media and product matrix testing media. For each category of test media, a minimum set of medium characteristics to report in all NM tests is recommended. Definitions and detail level of the recommendations for specific standardized media vary across these media categories. This reflects the variation in the maturity of their use as a test medium and associated measurement techniques, variation in utility and relevance of standardizing medium properties, ability to simplify standardizing reporting requirements, and in the availability of established standard reference media. Adoption of these media harmonization recommendations will facilitate the generation of integrated comparable datasets on NM fate and effects. This will in turn allow testing of the predictive utility of functional assay measurements on NMs in relevant media, support investigation of first principles approaches to understand behavioral mechanisms, and support categorization strategies to guide research, commercial development, and policy.
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U2 - 10.1039/C9EN00448C
DO - 10.1039/C9EN00448C
M3 - Article
SN - 2051-8153
VL - 7
SP - 13
EP - 36
JO - Environmental Science: Nano
JF - Environmental Science: Nano
IS - 1
ER -