A new paper summarizes progress on safer and sustainable by design (SSbD) approaches for nano and advanced materials and highlights recent work to meet the challenges to their practical implementation: including progress on projects that Vireo is carrying out as a DIAGONAL Project Partner.

In a landmark decision, the EU Court of Justice ruled that 2017 decisions on carcinogenicity for TiO2  did not rely on valid evidence. The animal studies used were not relevant to humans and they failed to show an intrinsic cause of cancer. The court decision has implications for the EU ban of TiO2 in food.

During the New Harvest 2022: Experience Cellular Agriculture Conference, Dr. Kimberly Ong of Vireo Advisors, LLC discussed how to bring safe products to market by evaluating and demonstrating safety in her presentation “Solving for Safety”.

New Harvest recently announced they are running out of runway. Isha Datar, Executive Director of New Harvest said that she is no longer confident that New Harvest will raise their budgeted total for the year. She fears that they must move from a growth mindset to survival mode due to the economic slowdown, which is delaying anticipated gifts.

A new European Commission roadmap reveals future directions for chemical regulation in Europe including maintenance of a rolling list of chemicals considered for risk management measures and grouping of chemically similar substances.