REGULATORS MOVE SLOWLY TOWARDS SPECIAL CONTROLS FOR NANOMATERIALS
July 1st, 2015
NANOTECHNOLOGY can deliver impressive new functionality to personal care products, but with health risks still unclear, regulators and researchers are developing new testing methods to underpin monitoring and controls.
The European Union (EU) especially is seeking alternatives methods to animal testing to determine the safety of nanomaterials in cosmetics products. The EU-backed MODERN research project (costing EUR 1.28 million), for instance, is working on using computational methods to characterise the structure of nanoparticles and in silico (computer-based ...
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