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Safe- and sustainable-by-design: The case of Smart Nanomaterials. A perspective based on a European workshop
The European Commission's Green Deal is a major policy initiative aiming to achieve a climate-neutral, zero-pollution, sustainable, circular and inclusive economy, driving both the New Industrial Strategy for Europe and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. Innovative materials can help to...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8795056/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34864125 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yrtph.2021.105093 |
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author | Mech, Agnieszka Gottardo, Stefania Amenta, Valeria Amodio, Alessia Belz, Susanne Bøwadt, Søren Drbohlavová, Jana Farcal, Lucian Jantunen, Paula Małyska, Aleksandra Rasmussen, Kirsten Riego Sintes, Juan Rauscher, Hubert |
author_facet | Mech, Agnieszka Gottardo, Stefania Amenta, Valeria Amodio, Alessia Belz, Susanne Bøwadt, Søren Drbohlavová, Jana Farcal, Lucian Jantunen, Paula Małyska, Aleksandra Rasmussen, Kirsten Riego Sintes, Juan Rauscher, Hubert |
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description | The European Commission's Green Deal is a major policy initiative aiming to achieve a climate-neutral, zero-pollution, sustainable, circular and inclusive economy, driving both the New Industrial Strategy for Europe and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. Innovative materials can help to reach these policy goals, but they need to be safe and sustainable themselves. Thus, one aim is to shift the development of chemicals to Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design, and define a new systems approach and criteria for sustainability to achieve this. An online workshop was organised in September 2020 by the Joint Research Centre and the Directorate-General Research and Innovation of the European Commission, with participants from academia, non-governmental organisations, industry and regulatory bodies. The aims were to introduce the concept of Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design, to identify industrial and regulatory challenges in achieving safer and more sustainable Smart Nanomaterials as an example of innovative materials, and to deliver recommendations for directions and actions necessary to meet these challenges. The following needs were identified: (i) an agreed terminology, (ii) a common understanding of the principles of Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design, iii) criteria, assessment tools and incentives to achieve a transition from Safe-by-Design to Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design, and (iv) preparedness of regulators and legislation for innovative chemicals/nanomaterials. This paper presents the authors' view on the state of the art as well as the needs for future activities, based on discussions at the workshop and further considerations. The case of Smart Nanomaterials is used to illustrate the Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design concept and challenges for its implementation. Most of the considerations can be extended to other advanced materials and to chemicals and products in general. |
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spelling | pubmed-87950562022-02-02 Safe- and sustainable-by-design: The case of Smart Nanomaterials. A perspective based on a European workshop Mech, Agnieszka Gottardo, Stefania Amenta, Valeria Amodio, Alessia Belz, Susanne Bøwadt, Søren Drbohlavová, Jana Farcal, Lucian Jantunen, Paula Małyska, Aleksandra Rasmussen, Kirsten Riego Sintes, Juan Rauscher, Hubert Regul Toxicol Pharmacol Short Communication The European Commission's Green Deal is a major policy initiative aiming to achieve a climate-neutral, zero-pollution, sustainable, circular and inclusive economy, driving both the New Industrial Strategy for Europe and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. Innovative materials can help to reach these policy goals, but they need to be safe and sustainable themselves. Thus, one aim is to shift the development of chemicals to Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design, and define a new systems approach and criteria for sustainability to achieve this. An online workshop was organised in September 2020 by the Joint Research Centre and the Directorate-General Research and Innovation of the European Commission, with participants from academia, non-governmental organisations, industry and regulatory bodies. The aims were to introduce the concept of Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design, to identify industrial and regulatory challenges in achieving safer and more sustainable Smart Nanomaterials as an example of innovative materials, and to deliver recommendations for directions and actions necessary to meet these challenges. The following needs were identified: (i) an agreed terminology, (ii) a common understanding of the principles of Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design, iii) criteria, assessment tools and incentives to achieve a transition from Safe-by-Design to Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design, and (iv) preparedness of regulators and legislation for innovative chemicals/nanomaterials. This paper presents the authors' view on the state of the art as well as the needs for future activities, based on discussions at the workshop and further considerations. The case of Smart Nanomaterials is used to illustrate the Safe- and Sustainable-by-Design concept and challenges for its implementation. Most of the considerations can be extended to other advanced materials and to chemicals and products in general. Elsevier 2022-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8795056/ /pubmed/34864125 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yrtph.2021.105093 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Mech, Agnieszka Gottardo, Stefania Amenta, Valeria Amodio, Alessia Belz, Susanne Bøwadt, Søren Drbohlavová, Jana Farcal, Lucian Jantunen, Paula Małyska, Aleksandra Rasmussen, Kirsten Riego Sintes, Juan Rauscher, Hubert Safe- and sustainable-by-design: The case of Smart Nanomaterials. A perspective based on a European workshop |
title | Safe- and sustainable-by-design: The case of Smart Nanomaterials. A perspective based on a European workshop |
title_full | Safe- and sustainable-by-design: The case of Smart Nanomaterials. A perspective based on a European workshop |
title_fullStr | Safe- and sustainable-by-design: The case of Smart Nanomaterials. A perspective based on a European workshop |
title_full_unstemmed | Safe- and sustainable-by-design: The case of Smart Nanomaterials. A perspective based on a European workshop |
title_short | Safe- and sustainable-by-design: The case of Smart Nanomaterials. A perspective based on a European workshop |
title_sort | safe- and sustainable-by-design: the case of smart nanomaterials. a perspective based on a european workshop |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8795056/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34864125 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yrtph.2021.105093 |
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