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Uniting the Nanomaterials Ecosystem
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iCare Project Marks Penultimate General Assembly in Pisa

Partners in the iCare project met at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Pisa on 25-26 August 2026 for the project's penultimate General Assembly. The meeting focused on reviewing progress across the consortium and planning activities for the final phase of the project. Participants also visited IIT laboratories to observe research activities firsthand, including work involving planarians as a bridging model between traditional animal testing and in vitro approaches. Discussions also…

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Advancing Sound Regulation & Standards
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LEARN Project: A Call for Action on Indoor Air Quality in European Schools

Through its work on the LEARN project, the NIA has co-authored a policy briefing setting out concrete recommendations to improve indoor air quality in schools across Europe. Project findings show that poor air quality affects both the health and cognitive performance of school children — and that the means to address it exist. Yet indoor air quality remains largely unregulated at EU level, with no common policy framework in place. The briefing calls for coordinated action involving schools…

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Advancing Sound Regulation & Standards
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Dealing with Sameness and Similarity: Grouping and Read-Across of Advanced (Nano)Materials Workshop  

As part of its work in the iCare Project, the NIA managed and chaired a workshop on grouping and read across of advanced (nano) materials. Kai Paul from NIA Member Blue Frog Scientific gave the introductory talk to introduce the recent ECHA funded work that has been undertaken to support a framework for identifying single nanoforms. This was followed by talks from Damjana Drobne (University of Ljubljana) on the ACCORDS characterisation for linking biological effects with physicochemical…

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Corporate Members OnlyAdvancing Sound Regulation & Standards
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Special Purpose Committee on Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) 2nd Meeting 

The NIA’s Special Purpose Committee on Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) held its second meeting on 13 May 2026 and was attended by NIA Members and invited guests. Chaired by NIA Member Cabot, the Special Committee is aimed at agreeing join positions on CNTs, providing advocacy to relevant regulators and policymakers, sharing information on CNT topics and undertaking collaborative work on areas of interest to NIA members such as exposure levels, standards and Test Guidelines. The meeting had a very full…

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Standardisation updates 

Under CEN/TC 352 Nanotechnologies through M/461 Standardization Mandate to CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI for standardization activities regarding nanotechnologies, the following have been published CEN/TS 18269 (WI 00352043) Nanotechnologies - Guidance on the determination of the aggregation and agglomeration state of nano-objects CEN/TS 18267 (WI 00352044) Nanotechnologies - Guidelines for sample preparation, detection, identification, and characterization by spICP-MS and EM-EDX of nano-objects in…

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OECD publishes new guidance on regulatory research data

The OECD has released a new Guidance Document (Testing & Assessment No. 417) providing a harmonised framework for research data used in regulatory decision-making. The guidance explicitly includes nanomaterials and advanced materials, setting criteria for study quality, documentation, and transparency to support data acceptance in frameworks such as REACH, TSCA, and K‑REACH. 📘 Read more: https://one.oecd.org/document/ENV/CBC/MONO%282025%2918/en/pdf

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