Scientific Basis for Regulatory Decision-Making of Nanomaterials Report on the Workshop, 20–21 January 2014, Center of Applied Ecotoxicology, Dübendorf

Authors

  • Christoph Studer Federal Office of Public Health FOPH, Bern, Switzerland
  • Peter Wick Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • Etienne Vermeissen Ecotox Centre, Dübendorf, Switzerland
  • Gregor Schneider RAS Materials, Regensburg, Germany
  • Kristin Schirmer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
  • Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser Adolphe Merkle Institute, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Bernd Nowack Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • Andrej Kobe European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
  • Robert Kase Ecotox Centre, Dübendorf, Switzerland
  • Ralf Kägi Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
  • Jörg Huwyler University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Peter Hoet University of Leuven, Leuven, Netherlands
  • Natalie von Goetz Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Bojan Gasic State Secretariat for Economic Affairs Seco, Bern, Switzerland
  • Lothar Aicher Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, University of Basel, Switzerland
  • Tobias Walser Federal Office of Public Health FOPH, Bern, Switzerland. tobias.walser@bag.admin.ch

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2015.52

Keywords:

Nanomaterials, Regulation of nanomaterials, Risk assessment

Abstract

The key findings of a workshop jointly organized by the Swiss Centre of Applied Ecotoxicity, the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT), and the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) are summarized and provide a critical analysis of the current regulatory framework for nanomaterials and a snapshot of some hot topics in nanoscience.
CHIMIA Vol. 69 No. 1-2 (2015): Chemistry and Light

Downloads

Published

2015-02-25

Issue

Vol. 69 No. 1-2 (2015): Chemistry and Light

Section

Note

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Swiss Chemical Society

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

[1]
C. Studer, P. Wick, E. Vermeissen, G. Schneider, K. Schirmer, B. Rothen-Rutishauser, B. Nowack, A. Kobe, R. Kase, R. Kägi, J. Huwyler, P. Hoet, N. von Goetz, B. Gasic, L. Aicher, T. Walser, Chimia 2015, 69, 52, DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2015.52.