Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety

Risks, Regulation, and Management

2nd Edition - June 11, 2014
Editors: Matthew Scott Hull, Diana Bowman
Language: English
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Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety, Second Edition focuses not only on the impact of nanotechnology and the discipline of nanotoxicity, but also explains each of these disciplines through in the context of management requirements and via risk scenarios — providing an overview of regulation, risk management, and exposure. Contributors thoroughly explain environmental health and safety (EHS) issues, financial implications, foreseeable risks (e.g., exposure, dose, hazards of nanomaterials), occupational hygiene, and consumer protection.Key new chapters have been included covering eco-toxicity, nanomedicine, informatics, and future threats. New case studies have also been added, including a chapter on the impact of nanosilver on the environment, as well as an assessment of how well lessons have been learned from the past, such as in the case of asbestos. The book also makes a business case for the importance of proactive EHS management - essential reading for existing or prospective producers of nanoscale products.

Foreword
List of Contributors
Section 1: Precaution
- Chapter 1. Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety—What We’ve Learned and Where We’re (Potentially) Heading
  - References
- Chapter 2. What Are the Warning Signs That We Should Be Looking For?
  - 2.1 Early warning signs
  - 2.2 Cautionary tales, but is anyone listening?
  - 2.3 Two steps forward and one step back? Or one step forward and two steps back?
  - 2.4 But have we done enough?
  - References
- Chapter 3. Are We Willing to Heed the Lessons of the Past? Nanomaterials and Australia’s Asbestos Legacy
  - 3.1 Introduction
  - 3.2 Lessons of the past
  - 3.3 Big problems with small materials
  - 3.4 Controls and risk assessment
  - 3.5 What needs to be done?
  - 3.6 Answering the call for precaution?—SWA approach to ENMs post 2009
  - 3.7 Emerging from the shadow: 2009 SWA report
  - 3.8 A big shift: 2010–2012
  - 3.9 A move toward higher levels of control
  - 3.10 Conclusions
  - Acknowledgment
  - References
Section 2: Progress
- Chapter 4. Characterization of Nanomaterials for NanoEHS Studies
  - 4.1 Introduction
  - 4.2 Morphology
  - 4.3 Chemical composition
  - 4.4 Standard reference materials and method standards
  - 4.5 Incidental nanoparticles and nanoparticle cycles under relevant conditions
  - 4.6 Advanced measurement techniques
  - 4.7 Routine analysis
  - 4.8 Reporting recommendations
  - 4.9 Conclusions
  - References
- Chapter 5. Toxicological Issues to Consider When Evaluating the Safety of Consumer Products Containing Nanomaterials
  - 5.1 Introduction
  - 5.2 Types of consumer products that contain nanomaterials
  - 5.3 Life cycle exposure to nanomaterials in consumer products
  - 5.4 Nanotoxicology
  - 5.5 Safety evaluations of consumer products containing nanomaterials
  - 5.6 Characterizing nanomaterials for toxicological evaluation
  - 5.7 Recommendations for companies developing nano-containing consumer products
  - 5.8 Conclusion
  - References
- Chapter 6. Nanomaterials Ecotoxicology: A Case Study with Nanosilver
  - 6.1 Introduction
  - 6.2 Importance of comprehensive assessment of in-use applications
  - 6.3 General ecotoxicology
  - 6.4 Environmental modifying factors
  - 6.5 Dosimetry considerations
  - 6.6 Ecotoxicology related to modeled environmental concentrations
  - 6.7 Conclusions and applicability of nanosilver to general nanotoxicology
  - References
- Chapter 7. A Nanomaterial Registry
  - 7.1 Introduction
  - 7.2 Registry concepts
  - 7.3 Data curation
  - 7.4 Leveraging initiatives in nanotechnology
  - 7.5 Conclusions
  - Acknowledgments
  - References
- Chapter 8. Nanoinformatics: Data-Driven Materials Design for Health and Environmental Needs
  - 8.1 Overview
  - 8.2 Introduction—the information challenge
  - 8.3 Quantifying information complexity in nanoscience
  - 8.4 Harnessing nanoinformatics: case studies
  - 8.5 Big data for nanotechnology policy
  - References
Section 3: Perspectives
- Chapter 9. A Case Study of a Nanoscale-Research Facility: Safety Through Design and Operation
  - 9.1 The BNC facility
  - 9.2 Safety considerations
  - 9.3 Designing in safety
  - 9.4 Identification of hazard potentials in the BNC
  - 9.5 Designing in safety—key examples
  - 9.6 Gas hazard mitigation design
  - 9.7 Summary
- Chapter 10. Commercialization of Cellulose Nanocrystal (NCC™) Production: A Business Case Focusing on the Importance of Proactive EHS Management
  - 10.1 Introduction
  - 10.2 Regulatory framework in Canada
  - 10.3 Physical–chemical characterization of NCC™
  - 10.4 Ecotoxicological and toxicological test results for NCC™
  - 10.5 Occupational and environmental testing at the NCC™ demonstration plant
  - 10.6 Conclusions
  - References
- Chapter 11. Nanotechnology Risk Management: An Insurance Industry Perspective
  - 11.1 Introduction
  - 11.2 Risk management strategies
  - 11.3 Which strategy to choose?
  - 11.4 Insurance exposure and tools for risk management
  - 11.5 Potential risk management and regulatory issues for nanomaterials
  - 11.6 Likely insurance scenarios
  - 11.7 Conclusions
  - References
- Chapter 12. A Nanotechnology Legal Framework
  - 12.1 Nano-product legal life cycle
  - 12.2 Legal issues
  - 12.3 Conclusion
  - References
- Chapter 13. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Shaping the Nanotechnologies Landscape Through Regulatory Choice
  - 13.1 Shaping behavior through regulation: subtle and not so subtle approaches
  - 13.2 Key lessons and recommendations of regulatory reviews to date
  - 13.3 Multilateral and multiparty initiatives: the story so far
  - 13.4 Moving forward amidst uncertainty
  - References
Section 4: Sustainability
- Chapter 14. Exploring Boundaries Around the Safe Use of Advanced Materials: A Prospective Product-Based Case Studies Approach
  - 14.1 Introduction
  - 14.2 Defining advanced materials
  - 14.3 Advanced material risks and safe use—a prospective product-based case study approach
  - 14.4 Testing the prospective product case study methodology—an example using a hypothetical dynamic food product label
  - 14.5 A prospective product case study—a graphene-based dynamic labels for food products
  - 14.6 Utility of the prospective product case study methodology
  - Acknowledgments
  - References
- Chapter 15. Nanomaterial Governance, Planetary Health, and the Sustainocene Transition
  - 15.1 Introduction
  - 15.2 Nanotechnology safety in global context
  - 15.3 Regulatory uncertainty and nano-sunscreens
  - 15.4 Regulatory uncertainty and nanosilver
  - 15.5 Paths to greater nanoregulatory certainty
  - 15.6 Reorienting global regulation so nanotechnology assists the Sustainocene
  - 15.7 Reorienting the scientific quest toward nanotechnology’s role with the Sustainocene
  - 15.8 Rethinking the ethics of corporate globalization
  - 15.9 Reorienting international law to nanotechnology’s role with the Sustainocene
  - 15.10 The moral culmination of nanoregulation in globalized artificial photosynthesis
  - References
- Chapter 16. Sustainable Nanotechnology: A Regional Perspective
  - 16.1 Introduction
  - 16.2 Environmental considerations
  - 16.3 Societal considerations
  - 16.4 Economic considerations of nanotechnology and sustainability
  - 16.5 Summary
  - Acknowledgments
  - References
Index

Matthew Scott Hull

Matthew Hull has been an active part of the nanotechnology environmental health and safety (EHS) landscape for over two decades. In 2003, he developed the NanoSafe™ framework, which provided an integrated approach for managing nanotechnology EHS risks. That framework led Hull to found NanoSafe, Inc., in 2007, and contributed pioneering programs in web-enabled nanotechnology EHS management systems, nanotechnology waste recovery and recycling processes, third-party test and verification services, and life-cycle ecotoxicological studies of nanomanufacturing. After 16 years as president/owner of NanoSafe, Inc., Hull successfully exited the company in 2023, through an acquisition by ITA International, LLC. Currently, Hull serves as Research Professor in Virginia Tech’s Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) as well as Director for the Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory (NCFL) and the Materials Characterization Laboratory (MCL). He also serves as Associate Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the NSF-funded US National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) and Virginia Tech’s National Center for Earth and Environmental Nanotechnology (NanoEarth). He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2011 and an M.S. in Biology from Virginia Tech in 2002. He received his B.S. In Environmental Science from Ferrum College in 2000.

Affiliations and expertise

Research Professor and Director, Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory (NCFL) and the Materials Characterization Laboratory (MCL), Virginia Tech, USA

Diana Bowman

Dr. Diana Bowman is a Professor of Law in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she serves as the Associate Dean for Applied Research and Partnerships and the School for the Future of Innovation and Society, at Arizona State University (ASU). Diana is a Co-Director of the Center for Smart Cities and Regions (CenSCR), a Faculty Innovation Fellow with ASU’s University Technology Office and Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2018). Diana’s research has primarily focused on the legal and policy issues associated with emerging technologies including, for example, nanotechnologies, CRISPR and autonomous vehicles. Diana’s second pillar of work is within the sphere of public health law and policy, with a particular focus on road safety, assisted reproductive technologies and water safety.

Diana earned her Bachelor of Science (Physiology), a Bachelor of Law and a Doctor of Philosophy (Law) from Monash University (Australia). In August 2011 she was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia). In December 2022 she graduated from the Thunderbird School of Global Management with a Masters of Global Leadership and Management (Executive Program).

Affiliations and expertise

Full Professor, Arizona State University, USA

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