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Risk governance of emerging technologies demonstrated in terms of its applicability to nanomaterials

Isigonis, Panagiotis
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Afantitis, Antreas
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Antunes, Dalila
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Bartonova, Alena
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Beitollahi, Ali
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Bohmer, Nils
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Bouman, Evert
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Chaudhry, Qasim
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Cimpan, Mihaela Roxana
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Cimpan, Emil
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University Ca' Foscari of Venice; NovaMechanics Ltd; Factor Social Lda.; Norwegian Institute for Air Research; Iran Nanotechnology Initiate Council; Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology; University of Chester; University of Bergen; Western Norway University of Applied Sciences; Swansea University Medical School; CIDETEC; ECOS - European Environmental Citizens Organization for Standardization; ANSES Fougères Laboratory; QSAR Lab Sp.; Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology; Health Canada; KU Leuven; IDEA Ideaconsult Limited Liability Company; Plastics Europe Deutschland; US Army Engineer Research and Development Center; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Birmingham; Malsch TechnoValuation; Universidad de Zaragoza; TGO - Transgero Limited; BAuA - Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Dortmund; Procter & Gamble Co.; University of Gdansk; Amity University; University of Michigan; Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb; Warheit Scientific LLC; Duke University; Maastricht University
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2020-07-23
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Nanotechnologies have reached maturity and market penetration that require nano-specific changes in legislation and harmonization among legislation domains, such as the amendments to REACH for nanomaterials (NMs) which came into force in 2020. Thus, an assessment of the components and regulatory boundaries of NMs risk governance is timely, alongside related methods and tools, as part of the global efforts to optimise nanosafety and integrate it into product design processes, via Safe(r)-by-Design (SbD) concepts. This paper provides an overview of the state-of-the-art regarding risk governance of NMs and lays out the theoretical basis for the development and implementation of an effective, trustworthy and transparent risk governance framework for NMs. The proposed framework enables continuous integration of the evolving state of the science, leverages best practice from contiguous disciplines and facilitates responsive re-thinking of nanosafety governance to meet future needs. To achieve and operationalise such framework, a science-based Risk Governance Council (RGC) for NMs is being developed. The framework will provide a toolkit for independent NMs' risk governance and integrates needs and views of stakeholders. An extension of this framework to relevant advanced materials and emerging technologies is also envisaged, in view of future foundations of risk research in Europe and globally. [Abstract copyright: © 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.]
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Isigonis, P., Afantitis, A., Antunes, D., Bartonova, A., Beitollahi, A., Bohmer, N., ... & Dusinska, M. (2020). Risk governance of emerging technologies demonstrated in terms of its applicability to nanomaterials. Small, 16(36), 2003303. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202003303
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Small
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/623698
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10.1002/smll.202003303
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© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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1613-6810
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1613-6829
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