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Nanotechnology is a so-called key-emerging technology that opens a new world of technological innovation. The novelty of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) raises concern over their possible adverse effect to man and the environment. Thereupon, risk assessors are challenged with ever decreasing times-to-market of nano-enabled products. Combined with the perception that it is impossible to extensively test all new nanoforms, there is growing awareness that alternative assessment approaches need to be developed and validated to enable efficient and transparent risk assessment of ENMs. Associated with this awareness, there is the need to use existing data on similar ENMs as efficiently as possible, which highlights the need of developing alternative approaches to fate and hazard assessment like predictive modelling, grouping of ENMs, and read across of data towards similar ENMs. In this contribution, an overview is given of the current state of the art with regard to categorization of ENMs and the perspectives for implementation in future risk assessment. It is concluded that the qualitative approaches to grouping and categorization that have already been developed are to be substantiate

Author

Peijnenburg, Willie

Published

2020

Language

EN