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Risk Governance of Nanotechnology

Descrizione del progetto

Nuove linee guida per la valutazione del rischio di nanomateriali ingegnerizzati

L’approccio di valutazione del rischio adottato per le sostanze chimiche convenzionali potrebbe non essere completamente applicabile ai nanomateriali ingegnerizzati. Serve dunque un nuovo quadro per la governance del rischio dei nanomateriali ingegnerizzati. In quest’ottica, il progetto RiskGONE, finanziato dall’UE, raccomanderà adeguamenti alle attuali linee guida o svilupperà documenti di orientamento nano-specifici per la valutazione del rischio di nanomateriali ingegnerizzati. Nello specifico, valuterà, ottimizzerà e pre-convaliderà procedure operative standard e linee guida per l’esecuzione di test, integrandole a un quadro per la governance del rischio. Basandosi sulle attuali strategie per la valutazione del rischio di sostanze chimiche convenzionali, questo nuovo quadro includerà strumenti modulari. Incorporerà aspetti etici e percezione sociale del rischio e gestirà inoltre rischi accettabili e inaccettabili attraverso il trasferimento o la mitigazione.

Obiettivo

Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are covered by REACH/CLP regulations; the general opinion is that the risk assessment (RA) approach routinely used for conventional chemicals is also applicable to ENMs. However, as acknowledged by OECD and ECHA, the OECD and ISO Test Guidelines (TGs) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) need to be verified and adapted to be applicable to ENMs. RiskGONE will support the standardization and validation process for ENM by evaluating, optimizing and pre-validating SOPs and TGs and integrating them into a framework for risk governance (RG) of ENMs. The framework will comprise modular tools and will rely heavily on current strategies for the RA of conventional chemicals, complemented by methods for estimating environmental, social and economic benefits. It will incorporate ethical aspects and societal risk perception and will manage acceptable and unacceptable risks through transfer or mitigation. The focus of RiskGONE will be to produce nano-specific draft guidance documents for application to ENM RA; or, alternatively, to suggest ameliorations to OECD, ECHA, and ISO/CEN SOPs or guidelines. Rather than producing assays and methods ex novo, this will be achieved through Round Robin exercises and multimodal testing of OECD TGs and ECHA methods supporting the “Malta-project”, and on methods not yet considered by OECD. This process will be accelerated by guidance documents for data storage/curation/accessibility optimisation, applied to well-characterized reference ENMs typifying the main physicochemical and toxicological features of ENMs. The conditions for a transparent and self-sustained organisational form for science-based RG, representing EU stakeholders, member states, industry and civil society, will be established. The RG framework and methods developed by RiskGONE will be transferred to the organisational form for RG.

Invito a presentare proposte

H2020-NMBP-TO-IND-2018-2020

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Bando secondario

H2020-NMBP-TO-IND-2018

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinatore

STIFTELSEN NILU
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 946 208,44
Costo totale
€ 946 208,44

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