Scientific Basis for Regulatory Decision-Making of Nanomaterials Report on the Workshop, 20-21 January 2014, Center of Applied Ecotoxicology, Dübendorf

Christoph Studer; Lothar Aicher; Bojan Gasic; Natalie von Goetz; Peter Hoet; Jörg Huwyler; Ralf Kägi; Robert Kase; Andrej Kobe; Bernd Nowack; Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser; Kristin Schirmer; Gregor Schneider; Etienne Vermeissen; Peter Wick; Tobias Walser

doi:10.2533/chimia.2015.52

Scientific Basis for Regulatory Decision-Making of Nanomaterials Report on the Workshop, 20-21 January 2014, Center of Applied Ecotoxicology, Dübendorf

Chimia (Aarau). 2015;69(1-2):52-6. doi: 10.2533/chimia.2015.52.

Authors

Christoph Studer¹, Lothar Aicher², Bojan Gasic³, Natalie von Goetz⁴, Peter Hoet⁵, Jörg Huwyler⁶, Ralf Kägi⁷, Robert Kase⁸, Andrej Kobe⁹, Bernd Nowack¹⁰, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser¹¹, Kristin Schirmer¹², Gregor Schneider¹³, Etienne Vermeissen⁸, Peter Wick¹⁰, Tobias Walser¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Federal Office of Public Health FOPH, Bern, Switzerland.
² Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, University of Basel, Switzerland.
³ State Secretariat for Economic Affairs Seco, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵ University of Leuven, Leuven, Netherlands.
⁶ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁷ Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
⁸ Ecotox Centre, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
⁹ European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁰ Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
¹¹ Adolphe Merkle Institute, Fribourg, Switzerland.
¹² Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
¹³ RAS Materials, Regensburg, Germany.
¹⁴ Federal Office of Public Health FOPH, Bern, Switzerland. tobias.walser@bag.admin.ch.

PMID: 26507088
DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2015.52

Abstract

The key findings of a workshop jointly organized by the Swiss Centre of Applied Ecotoxicity, the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT), and the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) are summarized and provide a critical analysis of the current regulatory framework for nanomaterials and a snapshot of some hot topics in nanoscience.