Main Title |
Nanotechnologies : a preliminary risk analysis on the basis of a workshop organized in Brussels on 1-2 March 2004 / |
CORP Author |
European Commission. Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection. |
Publisher |
Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General of the European Commission, |
Year Published |
2005 |
OCLC Number |
70079397 |
Subjects |
Nanotechnology ;
Risk assessment
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EJBM |
T174.7.E977 2004 |
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Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
06/16/2006 |
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Collation |
143 p. ; 28 cm. |
Contents Notes |
Workshop outcomes -- Preliminary risk analysis -- Overview -- Hazard identification -- Clarifications -- Concerns -- Toxicology and ecotoxicology -- Ethics -- Security -- Limits -- Policy options evoked during the meeting -- Twelve recommendations from experts at the workshop -- Options for future policies identified by the workshop secretariat -- General statement on nanotechnologies -- Concept note on a hazard trigger algorithm as a potential prioritization tool for use by regulators. Documents produced and circulated prior to 1 March 2004 -- Collection of short contributions by invited experts -- Security problems from nanotechnology -- Moving the nanoscience and technology (NST) debate forwards: short-term impacts, long-term uncertainty and the social constitution -- A need for integrated testing of products in nanotechnology -- Engineered nanomaterials and risks: one perspective -- Mapping out nano risks: some considerations on possible toxicity -- Complexity and uncertainty: a prudential approach to nanotechnology -- Nano ethics primer -- Nanotechnology: from the insurers' perspective -- A briefing note on nanoparticles -- Mapping out nano risks -- Social imagination for nanotechnology -- Emerging concepts in nanoparticle (NP) toxicology -- Mapping out nano risks -- Public perception of nanotechnology -- Risks and ethical challenges of nanotechnology in healthcare -- Towards an appropriate corporate and public governance of nano risks: promoting and strengthening a multilateral approach -- Nanotechnology and its implications. |