EU AND OECD ACT AGAINST NANOTECHNOLOGY RISKS AS NEW LABORATORY SAFETY TEST DEVELOPED
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL and MARK ROWE
RICH member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are pooling experts and budgets to assess the environmental risks of using nanomaterials, including those incorporated into sunscreens, cosmetics and packaging. The OECD's Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials will manage the programme; it already can call on 100 experts from the OECD's 30 member countries. "Nanomaterials will be tested for: their physical-chemical properties; environmental degradation and accumulation; ...
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