The Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials: The Work of the OECD

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The Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials The
Work of the OECD

• Noriko Oki
• Administrator, EHS

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OECDs 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

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CHEMICAL SAFETY OBJECTIVES
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ACHIEVE 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

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Key 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

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Manufactured 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?

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Manufactured 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

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Manufactured 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

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Manufactured 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

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Priorities 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)

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Working 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

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Working 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-----

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INTERNET

• Information on Programmes
• Documents
• Databases
• News

http//www.oecd.org/env/nanosafety
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Steering Group

• Australia
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• Switzerland
• UK
• US

• EC
• WHO
• BIAC

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ENV/EHS Nano Team

• Peter Kearns
• Mar Gonzalez
• Noriko Oki
• Jill Gibb
• Diana Morales