ECHA has been tasked by the European Commission to prepare a scoping study aimed at grouping poorly soluble low toxicity (PSLTs) particulates for hazard identification and clarifying the definition of the term PSLT. At Nanoconsult we believe this is interesting considering the ongoing legal case of TiO2 and the recent classification of [...]
It has been a tough year for low toxicity particles: talc has been classified as carcinogen 1 B (publication pending) and also in the TiO2 case, the appeal has lead to the preliminary judgement that initial classification of TiO2 will be retained. EU is creating a lot of problems with low toxicity [...]
The Particle Platform is an industry initiative coordinated by CEFIC,in which all major particle producers are represented, driving by the common goal to obtain better tests for so-called poorly soluble low toxicity (PSLT) particles, containing important particle groups such as amorphous silica's, talc, kaolin and many others. Current test protocols for specific [...]
Meanwhile the E-book with all contributions to the London Particles & health meeting in 2021 are now online. Please go to the following link: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/20810/particles-and-health-2021-an-international-conference-addressing-issues-in-science-and-regulation
It took a while but finally our paper went online in Toxicology Letters. The paper emerged out of the SAS4REACH consortium in which we discussed the pathology outcome of 14 different particles after subchronic inhalation. The fact that inflammation occurs after most particle exposures is not new, and frustrating classification. However, [...]
A few months ago the E-book with all contributions to the London Particles & Health meeting in 2021 is now published online. Please go to the following link: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/20810/particles-and-health-2021-an-international-conference-addressing-issues-in-science-and-regulation
If you are interested in the papers from the Particles & Health Conference that was held in October 2021 in London please go to the Frontiers website or have a look at the summary paper of session 2 on Inflammation as a key-outcome Pathway.
The last two days I spent quite some time online in a virtual (Teams) kick-off of MOMENTUM, a public private partnership research consortium funded by Zon-MW and Health Holland, Happy to contribute in kind with our expertise on particle toxicology and introduced the concept of Safe-by-Degradation as lesson learnt from previous [...]
A significant part of 2020, Nanoconsult has spent on composing a white paper on the health impact of microplastic particles. For this effort a read-across approach was taken to use current know-how and paradigms developed in other particle area's such as PSLT, nanomaterials and ambient PM. The final report was now delivered [...]
Het Brightlands material center legde deze maand uit wat er allemaal bij komt kijken als je plastics en verpakkingen circulair wil maken. Een leerzame webinar die ik U kan aanbevelen zolang die nog online staat. Voor mij was dan weer nieuw dat de pigmenten (bv carbon black) en de labels zoveel storen [...]