29 May 2018
On Sunday 27th of May, the French Government amendment No. 2557 was adopted by the National Assembly. The amendment states the Government shall take regulatory measures to suspend the placing on the market of additive E171 (titanium dioxide - TiO2) as well as foods containing it. This is based on the French Consumer Code, articles 521‑17 and also...
18 May 2018
On 18 May 2018, the French State Secretary for Ecology, Ms Brune Poirson, announced in the newspaper Le Parisien that the Government intends to implement a ban on the use of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in food products. "We want to ban, before the end of the year, the use of this substance as a food additive in France" said the State Secretary...
9 May 2018
Session 1 - Regional development for nanotechnology and KETs. How regional governments and clusters support the development of commercial nanotechnology
Chair: Paula Galvão, INL
4 May 2018
NIA participated in the Special Interest Group on Nanotechnologies (SIG nano) of the New and Emerging Technologies WG for Medical Devices, hosted by DG GROW. The group currently has the priority to produce guidelines to support the classification of medical devices according to rule 19 of the new EU Medical Devices Regulation (2017/745). NIA...
3 May 2018
The Belgian Federal Public Service for Public Health has released its first report from the implementation of a nanomaterial register in Belgium. The report covers substances registered in 2016.
Most of the registrations (45% ) fall under the category of use: SU3 - Industrial uses: Uses of substances as such or in preparations at industrial sites...
30 Apr 2018
NIA is one of the accredited stakeholder to ECHA. On 3-4 May, NIA will attend the next ECHA Nanomaterial Expert Group Meeting (ECHA NMEG).
NIA Members who are interested will find more information about the meeting here (log in required).
26 Apr 2018
Today, Thursday 26 April, the REACH Committee adopted several modifications to the REACH Annexes to require specific information on nanomaterials.
20 Apr 2018
The European Parliament adopted on 19 April 2018, in its first reading, Regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products. The Regulation will state that organic food production shall exclude food containing, or consisting of, engineered nanomaterials. The text uses the definition of 'engineered nanomaterials' already in place in...
5 Apr 2018
As part of its work within the coalition of industry Associations 'Industry4Europe', NIA was proud to present the joint paper '
22 Mar 2018
The European Union Scientific Committee for Consumer Safety (SCCS) has launched a consultation on two draft opinion documents for the following nanomaterials:
21 Mar 2018
The European Commission published earlier in March its 2nd review of the functioning of the REACH Regulation. NIA has assessed this communication regard to its nanospecific aspects and prepared a summary report available to NIA Members.
According to the EC communicaiton there is currently no need to change the enacting terms of REACH. and it...
20 Mar 2018
In the frame of its 2007, Preventing through Design initiative, the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published three workplace design solutions for working with nanomaterials:
14 Mar 2018
NIA has been in action at the ImagineNano conference in Spain, showcasing projects including Nanoreg2, caLIBRAte, PATROLS and INSPIRED and hanging out with NIA Members CelluForce and the National Research Council Canada.
7 Mar 2018
NIA was pleased to host its quarterly open webinar dedicated this March to nanomedicine. "Nanomedicine – Diagnostics and therapeutics advancing through nanotechnology" showcased two NIA Members, Endomag and Senolytic and followed up with a whirlwind tour of the global device and therapeutics regulatory framework.
Delegates joined from Europe,...
2 Mar 2018
NIA has provided its comments to the European Food Safety Authority consultation on their Draft Guidance on risk assessment of the application of nanoscience and nanotechnologies in the food and feed chain: Part 1, human and animal health. EFSA has had a public consulation on this Draft Guidance which close on Sunday 4 March 2018.
1 Mar 2018
Presented to the European Parliament in 2014, the Proposal for a Regulation on Organic production and labelling of organic products (2014/0100(COD)), will now be presented in Plenary again. Discussions on the legal basis of the text have been closed by the House's Committee on Legal Affairs.
1 Mar 2018
In 2017, the Swiss Federal Council opened discussions on the modification of national ordinances on chemicals and biocides and proposed modifying its definition of a nanomaterial as well as introducing a general requirement for the registration of nanomaterials in the Confederation.
23 Feb 2018
NIA is delighted to publish its first Open Newsletter of 2018, as part of its quarterly series to the wider nanotechnology community.
The Q1 newsletter covers latest regulatory news, plus invitations and offers open to non-Members, from NIA and from projects in which we are partners.
19 Feb 2018
As recognition of Member priorities and highlighted ECHA concerns (see EUON article "Substances in nanoforms: urgent revision of REACH information requirements needed"), NIA is focussing on nanoforms and their grouping within its Global Regulatory Working Group.
15 Feb 2018
ECHA and the European Commission (DG Environment) are undertaking a study to assess the extent to which SDSs and Exposure Scenarios (ES) provide relevant information for end-use formulators who produce consumer mixtures, specifically regarding the exposure assessments which are required under REACH.
