The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published an article announcing that new data has become available from the OECD on nanomaterials. The data covers 11 commercially viable nanomaterials.
New data on 11 commercially viable nanomaterials was made available in June as part of a seven-year testing programme by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The information gives those companies who have registered or will register these nanomaterials in the EU, an opportunity to consider the data in their registration dossiers.
“If the information is relevant for the assessment of safe use of your substance, we encourage you to update your registration dossier to make sure the substances are used safely,” says Jenny Holmqvist, coordinator of nano activities in ECHA and Chair of the OECD steering group on the Testing and Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials.
“The OECD testing programme has made it possible to release an unprecedented volume of nano-specific data to the public,” says Jenny Holmqvist. The aim of the programme was firstly, to assess whether the existing test guidelines for substances need to be adapted to consider nano-specific issues, and secondly, to respond to the growing need for nano-specific data.
The 11 nanomaterials include:
- fullerenes
- single-walled carbon nanotubes
- multi-walled carbon nanotubes
- silver
- gold
- dendrimers
- silicon dioxide
- nanoclays
- titanium dioxide
- cerium dioxide
- zinc oxide
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