Title: The Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials: The Work of the OECD
1The Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials The
Work of the OECD
- Noriko Oki
- Administrator, EHS
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3OECDs Work on Chemical Safety
- Established in 1978
- Work undertaken by
- Part II Chemicals Committee
- Part I Working Party on Chemicals, Pesticides and
Biotechnology - Management by Joint Meeting
- Associated activities include Pesticides,
Biocides, Harmonisation in Biotechnology, and
Food/Feed Safety
4CHEMICAL SAFETY OBJECTIVES
5ACHIEVE OBJECTIVES THROUGH
- Harmonisation - Benefits - Trade -
Quality - Comparability - Basis for
Worksharing - Co-ordination/work sharing - Benefits -
Efficiency - Mutual Understanding -
Consistency - Outreach to
- - stakeholders
- - non-member countries
6Key Elements of Chemicals Programme
- Test Guidelines
- Good Laboratory Practice
- Mutual Acceptance of Data (yearly savings of 60
million) - Assessment methods
- Harmonisation of notification formats,
classification and labelling criteria,
terminology, reporting templates
7Manufactured Nanomaterials and Chemical Safety (2)
- Challenges with respect to safety
- How do nanomaterials fit into existing regulatory
frameworks? - Are they new or existing chemicals?
- Which safety parameters need to be tested?
- How do we test them?
- How do we assess them?
8Manufactured Nanomaterials and Chemical Safety (3)
- Addressing safety aspects at an early stage in
OECD will promote
- Public acceptance
- Worksharing in the development of new methods
- Convergence of methods among countries, thereby
providing a basis for future work sharing - Avoidance of future duplicative testing
- Minimisation of non-tariff trade barriers
9Manufactured Nanomaterials and OECD's Chemicals
Programme (1)
- Events of the Chemicals Committee
- First raised in the Chemicals Committee, November
2004 - Chemicals Committee held a Special Session on
nanomaterials in June 2005 - Workshop on the Safety of Manufactured
Nanomaterials, 7-9 December 2005 - Results of Workshop considered by Chemicals
Committee, February, 2006
10Manufactured Nanomaterials and OECD's Chemicals
Programme (2)
- Chemicals Committee management of the work
- Bring specialised expertise together
- Scope is industrial chemicals
- A Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials
will undertake the work
11Priorities for the Working Party for Manufactured
Nanomaterials
To establish a programme of work based on the
needs expressed in the Chemicals Committee. The
programme of work will identify proposed outputs
in the following areas
- Definitions, nomenclature and characterisation
- Environmental impacts (hazard identification
hazard and exposure assessment methods) - Human health effects (hazard identification
hazard and exposure assessment methods) - Regulatory frameworks (information exchange)
12Working Party for Manufactured Nanomaterials (1)
- Some projects under consideration
- Development of a Database on Human Health and
Environmental Safety Research (EHS) - EHS Research Strategies on Manufactured
Nanomaterials - Safety Testing of a Representative Set of
Nanomaterials
13Working Party for Manufactured Nanomaterials (2)
- Manufactured Nanomaterials and Test Guidelines
- Co-operation on Voluntary Schemes/ Programmes
- ----Working Party will report back to the
Chemicals Committee in November, 2006-----
14INTERNET
- Information on Programmes
- Documents
- Databases
- News
http//www.oecd.org/env/nanosafety
15Steering Group
- Australia
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Switzerland
- UK
- US
16ENV/EHS Nano Team
- Peter Kearns
- Mar Gonzalez
- Noriko Oki
- Jill Gibb
- Diana Morales