Nanotechnology Industries Association Welcomes New Board of Directors
The Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA), the leading global voice for for the nanotechnology community since 2005,  announces  its new Board of Directors, elected during its Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Ensuring OECD Guidelines for nano and advanced materials
Since its inception in 2017, the Mata Initiative has focused on revising OECD Test Guidelines (TG) and Guidance Documents (GD) to make them suitable for nano and advanced materials. These guidelines are crucial for both the industry and regulatory bodies in the assessment and testing of chemicals, playing a key role in the effective...
Global Insights on Nanomaterial Safety: Highlights from the OECD's WPMN Round Table
The OECD has published the Round Table information from the WPMN meeting held in June 2023 (period June 2022-June 2023), entitled “Developments in Delegations on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials and Advanced Materials – Tour de Table”.
OECD SG Advanced Materials
The NIA, as part of the OECD Steering Group of Advanced Materials, met on the 22 January 2024 as part of a series of meetings to validate tools developed to anticipate safety issues on novel materials such as advanced materials.
Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) and Nanotechnology Business Creation Initiative (NBCI) Sign Landmark Memorandum of Understanding
In a significant move towards fostering international cooperation in the field of nanotechnology and advanced materials, the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) and the Nanotechnology Business Creation Initiative (NBCI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 15  November 2023. This groundbreaking agreement marks a new era of...
The European Commission requests a second scientific opinion on Hydroxyapatite (nano) based on new evidence provided by industry
Following a previous SCCS conclusion on the safety of Hydroxyapatite (nano) when used at concentrations up to 10 % in toothpaste, and up to 0.465 % in mouthwash regarding rod-shaped Hydroxyapatite (nano) particles (see SCCS opinion Hydroxyapatite March 2023), industry has provided new evidence on the safety of Hydroxyapatite (nano) which now...
Malta Initiative survey on priorities for making OECD TGs/GDs applicable for nano and advanced materials
The Malta Initiative just launched a survey to collect input on priorities where OECD Test Guidelines (TGs) and Guidance Documents (GDs) need actions to make them applicable for nanomaterials and (other) advanced materials, i.e. materials that come with specific properties and behaviour due to their size, shape and structure. You are invited to...
NIA at CEN/352 Nanotechnologies and Chemcon 2023
During October 2023 the NIA Regulatory Affairs Director attended the CEN/352 Nanotechnologies meeting hosted in BSI (UK) where the status of the different CEN preliminary working items was presented and discussed and new ideas put forwards, regarding future standard needs from the Nanotechnology sector. The NIA remains open to new ideas from...
NIA supports new online tool for chemical testing standards
A new freely available web based platform that the NIA helped developed will aid scientists developing and using internationally accepted testing standards for chemicals and nanomaterials. The OECD publishes internationally agreed and accepted standard methods for the safety testing of chemicals and nanomaterials. Under the OECD Mutual Acceptance...
EUON report on NAMs for nanomaterials available
The EUON report on NAMs for nanomaterials is available . This report is particularly useful to stakeholders wishing to explore nano-specific NAMs for regulatory purposes in human safety assessment. The report identified 220 NAMs of which only 8 were nano-specific, calling for more research on NAMs applicable to the nanosize. The report also...
NIA at the WPMN23
The NIA attended the WPMN 23 meeting at the OECD in Paris from 26-28 June where updates were presented and step foward actions discussed regarding the adaptation of OECD guidelines to nanomaterials, together with the status of the OECD SG on SSIA and on AdMa. The released updated guidelines were the OECD TG 126 on the Determination of the...
NIA at The Advanced Materials Show
The Advanced Materials Show was held in June at the NEC, Birmingham (UK) over 2 days. Co-located with The Advanced Ceramics Show, Battery Cells and Systems Show and The Vehicle Electrification Show, the trade show attracted around 3,500 delegates. The NIA was well represented at the show, with the NIA itself having a stand on which it was joined...
SSbD JRC Technical report - Application of the SSbD Framework to case studies
On 15th June 2023 the JRC released the first application of the European Commission (EC) Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework in a case study, in particular on plasticisers in food contact material. This work was performed by the EC’s Joint Research Centre (Ispra). Lessons learned include the challenge due to lack of publicly available...