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Appendix C: Workshop Summary: Research Progress on Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Nanotechnology
Appendix C: Workshop Summary: Research Progress on Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Nanotechnology
Pages 137-144
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The workshop featured presentations by federal agency and foreign officials, academic researchers, and representatives of nongovernment organizations and industry on the scientific and regulatory framework for EHS research, on recent research progress, and on applications of the results of research to risk management. Panel discussions provided opportunities for expanded discussion of many of the issues raised during the presentations.
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Savitz highlighted needs for a higher-level authority that is accountable for EHS research to ensure that better policy is made; for an increase in the EHS nanotechnology research budget to about $25 million in cross-cutting fields, including informatics and instrumentation development (a recommendation originally made in the present committee's first report) ; for an emphasis on partnerships and interagency collaborations; for greater attention to worker safety by industry; and for individual agencies to have implementation plans that result from the federal strategic plan.
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, the committee identified institutional arrangements and mechanisms that need to be addressed better to support implementation of the research enterprise, including fostering interagency interaction, collaboration, and accountability; developing and implementing mechanisms for stakeholder engagement; advancing integration among sectors and institutions involved in EHS research, including public–private partnerships; and implementing structural changes aimed at conflicts of interest. Representatives of federal organizations -- including Sally Tinkle, NNCO; Tina Bahadori, EPA; Christopher Weis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
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Robert Tanguay, of Oregon State University, noted that ENM behavior depends completely on a material's inherent properties and that the goal of EHS research is to develop methods for predicting behaviors from the inherent properties. He described progress toward filling research gaps: distribution of some reference materials and their use in cross-evaluation of models, wider acceptance of minimum characterization standards (although perhaps not yet sufficient)
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Nathan Baker, of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, commented on the increasing number of informatics tools available for EHS nanotechnology research. A number of communities have been established to facilitate development and use of the tools, including the US-EU CoR for Databases/Ontology and Modeling, the National Cancer Informatics Program Nanotechnology working group, and the National Nanomanufacturing Network Nanoinformatics meetings.
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She described the partnership of NSF and the Consumer Products Safety Commission that was established in 2012 and expressed a hope that other research agreements can be established. Sri Nadadur, NIEHS, discussed research funding, including the NIEHS Centers for Nanotechnology Health Implications Research (an interdisciplinary program that comprises five U192 and three cooperative centers and other grantees and is intended to learn how the "properties of ENMs influence their interactions with biologic systems and potential health risks)
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Dr. Nadadur related how the Chemical Effects in Biological Systems database is being used to integrate and share EHS nanotechnology data generated by the NIEHS and NTP research programs.
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2012. A Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials.
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