NANOSAFE2 project newsletter - Issue 2

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This semi-annual newsletter is intended to inform the public and interested stake-holders on the recent progress of the activities and work packages within the NANOSAFE2 integrated project.

In this second issue find a brief overview of our last results.

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Detection, monitoring and characterization techniques

  • Monitoring of nanoparticles at industrial sites

Development and evaluation of on-line monitoring techniques

  • Gas phase detection
  • Liquid phase detection
  • Tracing and marking techniques
  • Off-line monitoring and sampling techniques

Health and hazard assessment

  • Cytotoxicity testing
  • Development of experimental methods in vivo whole-body distribution
  • Development of a microfabricated miniaturized system to test nanoparticles in vitro

Development of safe industrial production systems and applications

  • Limitation of nanoparticles release at source level
  • Nanoparticle confinements and protections at working places
  • Monitoring chains

Environmental and societal aspects

  • Development of a societal risk assessment methodology at workplaces
  • Life cycle analysis
  • Training

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