Objective
Concept: NanoFASE will deliver an integrated Exposure Assessment Framework, including methods, parameter values, model and guidance that will allow Industry to assess the full diversity of industrial nano-enabled products to a standard acceptable in regulatory registrations. Methods to assess how use phases, waste streams and environmental compartments (air, soil, water biota) act as “reactors” in modifying and transporting ENMs will be developed and used to derive parameter values. Our nanospecific models will be integrated with the existing multi-media fate model SimpleBox4Nano for use in EUSES and also develop into a flexible multi-media model for risk assessment at different scales and complexities. Information on release form, transformation and transport processes for product relevant ENMs will allow grouping into Functional Fate Groups according to their “most probable” fate pathways as a contribution to safe-by-design based on fate.
Methodology: Inventories of material release forms along the product value chain are established. We then study how released ENMs transform from initial reactive states to modified forms with lower energy states in which nanospecific properties may be lost. Transport studies assess material fluxes within/between compartments. The experimental work underpins models describing ENM transformation and transport. Open access is provided to the models suitable for incorporation into existing exposure assessment tools (e.g. SimpleBox4Nano) and for more detailed assessment. Framework completeness is validated by case studies.
Impact: Identified links between ENM material properties and fate outcome (e.g. safe-by-design). Improved representation of nanospecific processes in existing key fate and exposure assessment tools (e.g. SimpleBox4Nano in EUSES). Contribution to standardization. GIS framework to support predictive assessment, catchment and point source management of ENM releases.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-NMP-2014-two-stage
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
SN2 1FL Swindon
United Kingdom
Participants (35)
B15 2TT Birmingham
08225 Terrassa
8600 Dubendorf
47229 Duisburg
405 30 Goeteborg
1010 Wien
6708 PB Wageningen
OX1 2JD Oxford
70178 Stuttgart
08213 Polinya Barcelona
NG7 3EF Nottingham
46117 Liberec
08007 Barcelona
90-268 Lodz
544 01 Dvur Kralove Nad Labem
08018 Barcelona
8600 Dubendorf
60550 Verneuil En Halatte
7558 Strada Tschlin
2595 DA Den Haag
3721 MA Bilthoven
1211 Geneve
WR14 1XZ Malvern
PL4 8AA Plymouth
1000 Ljubljana
1081 HV Amsterdam
3810-193 Aveiro
6708 PB Wageningen
30123 Venezia
1111 Sofia
75005 Paris
SN5 4EJ Swindon
194 81 Upplands Vasby
750 07 Uppsala
82152 Planegg
