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.
Special issue of Risk Analysis Journal Explores Alternate Testing Strategies for Nanomaterials
Several themes were explored by The Emerging Nanoscale Materials Specialty Group (ENMSG) of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) co-organized by Jo Anne Shatkin and Kimberly Ong with a wonderful team of collaborators in a 2014 workshop on the use of alternate testing strategies (ATS) for risk assessment of nanomaterials.
PETA Workshop Furthers Work on Developing Alternate Testing Strategies for Studying the Effects of Nanomaterials in the Lung
A workshop organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Science Consortium Ltd. has led to several publications developing alternate testing strategies (non-animal methods) for studying nanomaterial effects in the lung.
Harper Group from Oregon State University Investigate the Effects of Chemical Modification on the Toxicity of Cellulose Nanomaterials
A publication in Cellulose this month investigated the effects of physical and chemical characteristics on cellulose nanomaterial toxicity.
Halappanavar group publishes meta-analysis of studies of carbon nanotubes, carbon black and titanium dioxide to identify pulmonary disease outcomes for nanomaterials
The researchers were able to identify the biological processes from exposure to three types of nanomaterials and how it contributes to disease.