Germany Announces Research Project to Establish Criteria for Assessment of the Human Health and Environmental Risks of Novel (Nano) Materials

On April 29, 2019, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) announced InnoMat.Life, a joint research project to establish criteria for an efficient assessment of the human health and environmental risks of novel (nano) materials.  The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is providing 2.22 million euro to fund the project, which will be coordinated by BfR and includes ten partners from public authorities, academia, and industry.  BfR states that until now, nanosafety research focused mainly on first generation nanomaterials, i.e., mainly round particles of pure substances such as nanosilver, titanium oxide, and zinc oxide.  In real life, far more materials are used, however.  Hybrid materials, consisting of two or more substances, are often applied, and nanoparticles can have many different shapes.  Many industrially used materials cover a broad size distribution from nanometers to micrometers.  Moreover, according to BfR, many…

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