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WG 3 – From Toxicity Studies to Regulation
4th Meeting – Galway, Ireland
Ailbhe Macken
NIVA
REPRORT WG3
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Round Robin: Method
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Activities 2015 - 2016
• From toxicity studies to regulation
– Chair: A Macken Vice Chair: A Gutleb
– Members: ca. 30
• Activties: Past and Future
– “Inter-laboratory Round Robin with D. magna and silver
NPs”
– STSMs : only 1
– Think Tank involvement
– Other activities
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Round Robin
• Participants
• Test species
– Daphnia magna
– Algal sp.
• Organiser/coordinator
– Arno Gutleb: LIST
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STSMs Past
• Understanding the toxic mechanism and cell particle
interaction of antimicrobial nanoparticles by advanced
morphological and molecular techniques.
• Home Institute: Dr. Elisa Moshini (STSM grantee)
• Host Institute: Dr. Tommaso Serchi (Host supervisor)
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STSMs Future:
• Future:
– Possibility: Modelling of nanomaterials in waste
water systems: NIVA – DTU (Denmark) visiting
PostDoc
– Others? None confirmed.
– To be discussed in WG meeting
Think Tank involvement
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• No WG3 TT organised for the next grant
Period
• Possible participation in upcoming TT from
other WGs
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Other activities
• Wetpol involvment from members
• Presentations by
– A Macken
– Regulatory challenges in risk assessment of nanomaterials in
the environment
– S Loureiro
– Toxicity and fate of silver nanoparticles in terrestrial isopods
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Other activities: Publication
Publication stemming from WG1 TT meeting
(Feb 2015)
– Modelling nanoparticles in the environment!
– Lead by Arjen Markus and Rute Domingos
• L. Dini, S. Loureiro, J. De Lapunete, D. Lyons, A.
Macken (WG3) and M. Benedetti, I Dror, S. Wagner
Title: “After a decade, have we been naive? It is time
to rev amp ideas for a safe handling of
nanotechnology”
– Submitted to NanoToday…..still waiting!
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Thank you