It is busy in PSLT land

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 [...]

By |2025-07-07T16:50:33+02:007 July 2025|Geen categorie|

Particle Platform website live

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 [...]

By |2025-03-26T20:08:03+01:0026 March 2025|Geen categorie|

Particle Platform

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 [...]

By |2024-02-03T16:31:42+01:003 February 2024|Geen categorie|

E-Book available online

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

By |2023-07-30T12:35:06+02:0030 July 2023|Geen categorie|

Inflammation and adversity

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, [...]

By |2023-07-17T15:33:21+02:0017 July 2023|Geen categorie, news|

E-book Particles & Health

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

By |2023-06-05T16:11:34+02:005 June 2023|Geen categorie|

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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 [...]

By |2021-12-23T13:10:24+01:005 June 2021|Geen categorie|

Microplastics white paper delivered to ICCA

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 [...]

By |2021-12-23T13:11:10+01:009 December 2020|Geen categorie|

leerzaam symposium

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 [...]

By |2021-12-23T13:11:22+01:0023 September 2020|Geen categorie|
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