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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
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/documents/ev_20040301_en.pdf
Holdings
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Status
EJBM  T174.7.E977 2004 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 06/16/2006
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.