The Swedish Chemical Agency (KEMI) has proposed an approach to registering nanomaterials to the Swedish Government. The report outlines a plan for a registry in Sweden under the existing Swedish Products Register that already gathers ‘information on chemicals and biotechnical organisms that are manufactured in or transferred or imported into Sweden’.

A new study published by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency  has concluded that there is "no causes for significant environmental concerns regarding nanomaterials." Four additional studies from the agency are published this month examining environmental, health and safety effects of nanomaterials.

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has issued several new publications addressing environmental and human health risk assessment in nanomaterials:

The publications produce new data for environmental, health and safety assessment of numerous nanomaterials as well as summarize the available literature for others.

Read more: http://eng.mst.dk/topics/chemicals/nanomaterials/

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has issued several new publications addressing environmental and human health risk assessment in nanomaterials:

 

The Oeko-Institut is an organization authorized by the European Commission to evaluate exemption requests (link is external) and determine if the substances meet the criteria set out on article 5(1)(a) of the directive.