Nanoproducts: What is Actually Available to European Consumers?

Steffen Foss Hansen, Laura Roverskov Heggelund, Aiga Mackevica

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    Abstract

    It remains unclear what is available in Europe when it comes to consumer products containing nanomaterials (NM), which hampers quantitative exposure assessment. To provide an overview of available nanoproducts, we have established The Nanodatabase (www.nanodb.dk), an online inventory of products claimed by manufacturers, importers, retailers, and web-shops to contain nanomaterials. The database currently entails almost 1400 products, 200 of which in the categories of cleaning and personal care. While including basic information about the product (e.g., name, NM used, location of NM in the product), a unique feature of the database is that it provides qualitative exposure/hazard evaluation of individual products based on the NanoRiskCat evaluation framework. Furthermore, the analysis section of the Nanodatabase website allows the user to do their own data sorting (product types, NMs used, number of products, etc.). While silver and titanium dioxide are the most used NMs, we could not identify the NM in more than 60% of all products. The presentation will furthermore include data on potential route of exposure to humans and the environment, results of the NanoRiskCat evaluation, distribution of the products according to their end-of-life fate and limitations of the database.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSustainable Nanotechnology Conference 2015 : Conference abstracts
    Number of pages1
    Place of PublicationVenice, Italy
    Publication date2015
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    EventSUN-SNO-GUIDENANO Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference 2015 - Venice, Italy
    Duration: 9 Mar 201511 Mar 2015

    Conference

    ConferenceSUN-SNO-GUIDENANO Sustainable Nanotechnology Conference 2015
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityVenice
    Period09/03/201511/03/2015

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