19 January 2010
A consortium led by Edinburgh Napier University and the Institute of Occupational Medicine has released the most comprehensive and authoritative review of the health and environmental issues relating to engineered nanoparticles to date.
The review, funded under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme, has performed a comprehensive and critical appraisal of the safety of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), metal and metal oxide nanomaterials. Sources, pathways of exposure, and the health and environmental outcomes of concern are considered in the report and it contributes directly to the evidence-base needed by industry, regulators and users of nanomaterials.
The review document can be downloaded free of charge from http://nmi.jrc.ec.europa.eu/project/ENRHES.htm