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Selected Document Category:Document Awaiting to be Published
Source:ASTM International Committee E56
Anticipated Publication Year:2016
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Acronym:ASTM
Identifier:WK48313
Document Title:New Guide for Standard Guide for Collection and Generation of Environment, Health, and Safety Information for Nanomaterials and Nanoenabled Products
url:http://www.astm.org/DATABASE.CART/WORKITEMS/WK48313.htm
Scope:This guide provides a consistent process for generating environmental health and safety (EHS) information for nanomaterials and nano-enabled products (nanotechnologies), including consideration of their relevant structure, use, and potential to release nano-scale material. The small size and purported unique properties of nanomaterials and the paucity of consistent information on how their unique behaviors potentially impact release, fate, exposure, and hazard suggests the need for unique regulatory and management approaches. However, to date, there is little consensus on such an approach. Described herein is a 5-tiered guidance framework for assessing whether nano-enabled products and nanomaterials have the potential for release nano-scale materials, how they will behave in natural systems, and whether they pose EHS concern. Navigation through each tier provides guidance for obtaining the most relevant information required by risk managers to make informed decisions with consideration to limited resources and capability gaps. Within each tier, there are opportunities to conclude if sufficient information was generated to make a risk-informed decision. The process considers the nano-enabled product type (or category), intended use, size of the ingredient nano-scale material, nano-scale material proximity to the surface of the nano-enabled product and how these factors impact potential for releases to the environment. The process begins with use of existing information to categorize the nanomaterial or nano-enabled product and to screen out those that clearly do not require testing (Tier I), followed by determination of release potential (Tier II), determination of environmental persistence (Tier III), hazard testing (Tier IV) and system-specific studies (Tier V), where necessary. This approach provides a procedure to consistently generate EHS information, based upon a consistent, integrated, sequential process that will facilitate risk management decisions, and accelerate nanotechnology acquisition while minimizing risk.
Keywords:EHS, Environment, Health, Safety, Structure, nanotechnology; release; nanomaterial; risk; hazard; fa
Type of Document:c. Guideline
Issues Areas:Health, Safety, and Environment
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Submitter's Name:Kate McClung
Submitter's e-mail:[email protected]
Submitter's Company:ASTM International
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Contact for Additional Info:Kate McClung, kmcclung at astm.org



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