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HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT OF ENGINEERED-MANUFACTURED NANOMATERIALS: RESEARCH CHALLENGES AND PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
Citation:
DREHER, K. L. HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT OF ENGINEERED-MANUFACTURED NANOMATERIALS: RESEARCH CHALLENGES AND PRELIMINARY FINDINGS. Presented at Federal-State Toxicology and Risk Analysis Committee (FSTRAC) Symposium, Durham, NC, October 17 - 19, 2007.
Impact/Purpose:
The presentation will briefly describe current research strategy efforts and subsequently focus on challenges associated with NMs health risk assessment as well as present preliminary pulmonary and extra-pulmonary health effects of specific classes of NMs.
Description:
Nanotechnology continues to produce a diversity of engineered nanomaterials (NMs), displaying novel physicochemical properties with applications in commercial, consumer, electronic, biomedical, energy, and environmental sectors. Nanotechnology has been referred to as the next industrial revolution with enormous societal benefits because of its economic impact and potential to revolutionise science, technology, and medicine. However, NMs and their applications could have health implications arising from new routes of exposure and/or toxicities associated with direct exposure to these novel materials, by-products associated with their production/applications, or their interactions with environmental media. The presentation will briefly describe current research strategy efforts and subsequently focus on challenges associated with NMs health risk assessment as well as present preliminary pulmonary and extra-pulmonary health effects of specific classes of NMs.