EU LAUNCHES NANO OBSERVATORY BUT SHUNS MANDATORY REGISTER
December 1st, 2016
A new European Union Observatory for Nanomaterials (EU-ON) database is set to go live in summer 2017. Its establishment will relieve the cosmetics industry which had feared earlier proposals to create a mandatory nanomaterials register, regarding it as a potential bureaucratic nightmare.
The observatory has been created to give objective safety information on nanomaterials on the EU market, reflecting environmental health concerns over including particles of between 1 to 100 nanometres (nm) in personal care products.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), which ...
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