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21/08/2015
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published the following documents in its Series on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials
No. 55 - ENV/JM/MONO(2015)19 - Harmonized Tiered Approach to Measure and Assess the Potential Exposure to Airborne Emissions of Engineered Nano-Objects and their Agglomerates and Aggregates at Workplaces. The primary goal of this document is to describe a reliable formal methodology for conducting consistent exposure related measurements and assessments of aerosols containing engineered nano-objects and their agglomerates and aggregates (NOAA) in workplace operations. The approach suggested here is aimed at finding and defining a common framework. Hence, this document presents a harmonised tiered approach that is systematic, consistent, practical, and flexible for conducting field-based, real-time workplace release and exposure measurement and assessment to airborne NOAA and off-line analyses of measurement samples.
No. 56 - ENV/JM/MONO(2015)20 - Analysis of the Survey on Available Methods and Models for Assessing Exposure to Manufactured Nanomaterials. This document provides a summary of responses to an informal survey conducted as an initial step in compiling information regarding methods and models for assessing exposure to manufactured nanomaterials. The results from the survey were intended to develop an inventory of available methods and models used to assess human and environmental exposure to manufactured nanomaterials.
No. 57 - ENV/JM/MONO(2015)30 - Guidance Manual towards the Integration of Risk Assessment into Life Cycle Assessment of Nano-Enabled Applications. This document aims to incorporate knowledge of risk analyses of the environmental impact in life cycle assessment studies as decision-making tools during both upstream (research & development) and downstream (industrialisation, usage, re-use, end-of-life management: recycling, recovery, destruction) phases of a nanostructured product. In order to address these issues, especially the need to link better risk assessment and life cycle assessment information, the guidance manual focuses in-depth on a “data-rich” case study: carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in semiconductors.
Find the full list of publications on the OECD website.

