The Vireo Advisors blog brings you the latest news and developments in safe, sustainable and bio-based materials and products including novel foods and sustainable nanomaterials.
The rise of lab grown foods
In the early part of the last century, Sir Winston Churchill made a prediction: “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium”.
REPORT BRIEFING WEBINAR June 9, 2020 1 PM EDT National Academy of Sciences Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
The National Academies invites you to join us for a report briefing webinar on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 from 1-2:30pm EDT featuring our recent report, A Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Nanoscience, Applications, and Commercialization.
Vireo Expands our Team: Welcome Shaun Clancy and Cassidy Pomeroy-Carter!
Vireo is pleased to announce our team expansion to include Dr. Shaun Clancy, formerly of Evonik Corporation in New Jersey, and Cassidy Pomeroy-Carter, formerly a Fellow with the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
Vireo Participates in National Graphene Association Inaugural Conference on EHS Panel
Jo Anne Shatkin is an NGA advisory board member and will be a panelist on the NGA’s first environmental health and safety panel discussion.
OECD Workshop on Physico-Chemical Parameters Framework for the Risk Assessment of Nanomaterials
Vireo Advisor’s Dr. Jo Anne Shatkin is working with US EPA and will be co-facilitating an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) workshop on Physico-Chemical Parameters Framework for the Risk Assessment of Nanomaterials in Paris, France on September 11, 2018.