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International Cooperation on Nanosafety Between Europe and Latin America

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Managing Risk in Nanotechnology

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Protecting workers, consumers and the environment against uncertain risks of manufactured nanomaterials is a global issue. While risk assessment research and risk governance are already well established in Europe and North America, other regions are lagging behind. In Latin America, Brazil has recently joined the EU project on nanoregulation NANoREG and is investing in several projects in nanotoxicology. The situation in other Latin American countries is much more fragmented. The present chapter gives an overview of the current state of the art and future plans in nanosafety research and governance in Latin America based on a bibliometric study, interviews, workshops and literature review that were part of the EU funded project NMP-DeLA www.nmp-dela.eu.

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  1. 1.

    http://www.etcgroup.org/

  2. 2.

    http://www.oecd.org/chemicalsafety/nanosafety/sponsors-testing-programme-manufactured-nanomaterials.htm

  3. 3.

    http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical_committee?commid=381983

  4. 4.

    SAICM was adopted by the ministers of environment and health of over 100 countries and is supported by representatives of industry, NGOs and trade unions during the first session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management in 2006. C.f. www.saicm.org

  5. 5.

    http://www.unitar.org/cwm/portfolio-projects/nanotechnology

  6. 6.

    http://www.who.int/occupational_health/topics/nanotechnologies/en/

  7. 7.

    www.nanosafetycluster.eu

  8. 8.

    www.nanoreg.eu

  9. 9.

    http://us-eu.org/

  10. 10.

    http://www.iwa-network.org/

  11. 11.

    http://www.setac.org/group/AGNano

  12. 12.

    ‘Nanosafety, safety, risk, nanorisk, toxicology, nanotoxicology, toxicity, nanotoxicity, ehs or nanoenvironmental health and security’.

  13. 13.

    This data shows all publications with at least one CELAC author. The result is a set that contains both national and international publications, and therefore other than CELAC countries can have a strong presence in the CELAC selection of publications. If, for example, one Spanish author has co-published a lot with a Brazilian author, Spain might be listed as very productive (although the selection was made for CELAC only).

  14. 14.

    https://visaemdebate.incqs.fiocruz.br/index.php/visaemdebate/issue/view/6

  15. 15.

    http://www.nanomedicina.com.br/

  16. 16.

    www.unq.edu.ar, http://www.imbice.gov.ar/

  17. 17.

    http://www.itba.edu.ar/es/id/centros/cima-centro-de-ingenier%C3%ADa-en-medio-ambiente

  18. 18.

    https://nanoseguridad.uniandes.edu.co/nano_en/indexeng.html

  19. 19.

    https://nanoseguridad.uniandes.edu.co/

  20. 20.

    The NMP-DeLA project that has supported the writing of this article also fosters EU-Latin American cooperation in nanosafety, but its scope is broader: www.nmpdela.eu.

  21. 21.

    http://www.unitar.org/cwm/nano/workshops/second-round/Latin-America-Caribbean

  22. 22.

    http://www.fundacentro.gov.br/nanotecnologia/inicio

  23. 23.

    http://www.nanotecnologiadoavesso.org/

  24. 24.

    http://www.iiep.org.br/index2.html

  25. 25.

    http://diesat.org.br/

  26. 26.

    http://www.dieese.org.br/

  27. 27.

    http://portal.fiocruz.br/pt-br

  28. 28.

    http://www.observatoriosocial.org.br/

  29. 29.

    http://portal.mte.gov.br/portal-mte/

  30. 30.

    http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=567257 and http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=600333

  31. 31.

    http://www.miem.gub.uy/consejos-sectoriales/nanotecnologia

  32. 32.

    http://www.iram.org.ar/index.php

  33. 33.

    http://www.fan.org.ar/acciones/nanosustentable

  34. 34.

    www.cecte.gov.ar

  35. 35.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Social_Forum

  36. 36.

    http://www.nanotecnologiadoavesso.org/

  37. 37.

    Paulo Martins, skype interview for the NanoEIS project by Ineke Malsch, 8 March 2013, unpublished

  38. 38.

    https://fsm2015.org/en

  39. 39.

    http://www.relans.org/inicio.html

  40. 40.

    http://www.ciel.org/issue/nanotechnology/

  41. 41.

    http://ipen.org/

  42. 42.

    http://www.foe.org/

  43. 43.

    http://www.aflcio.org/

  44. 44.

    http://www.etui.org/

  45. 45.

    www.nanoreg.eu

  46. 46.

    www.nanosafetycluster.eu

  47. 47.

    http://sectordialogues.org/pt-br/acoes-apoiadas/498

  48. 48.

    http://www.oecd.org/env/ehs/nanosafety/

  49. 49.

    www.stoffenmanager.nl

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    Ineke Malsch

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    Martina Lindorfer & Isabella Wagner

  3. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 1000, Espoo, Finland

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Malsch, I., Lindorfer, M., Wagner, I., Lima-Toivanen, M. (2016). International Cooperation on Nanosafety Between Europe and Latin America. In: Murphy, F., McAlea, E., Mullins, M. (eds) Managing Risk in Nanotechnology. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32392-3_5

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