12 Mar 2024
This report is a deliverable of Task 2.6 dedicated to the harmonisation of nanosafety procedures as part of WP2 “Pilot scheme for the management of a distributed research infrastructure offering harmonised, interoperable and integrated services”. The primary motivation within the context of NEP for the investigation of nanosafety procedures is the practical consideration that, when providing users with access to the facilities operated by the NEP beneficiaries, the staff of those beneficiaries routinely have to handle nanomaterials provided by the users. And while the users may have some information about the materials that they are providing, e.g., from their work on producing or modifying those materials, in many cases NEP is asked to perform the types of analytical measurements (e.g., of particle sizes, morphology, or composition) that ultimately can be part of the basis for evaluating the potential hazards posed by the (nano)material in question. In other words, until the measurements requested by the users have been performed via access provided by NEP, information about the (nano)materials being handled may be limited. The challenge of making decisions about the potential hazards posed by (nano)materials based on limited information, of course, is not unique to NEP but rather is encountered by other entities that routinely handle materials provided by third parties. This challenge is also related to the framework for evaluating the safety or potential hazards of nanomaterials that is under development in the European Union and worldwide, due to the proliferation of nanomaterials— both incidental and deliberately engineered—encountered in industry/commerce and environment. Accordingly, the work in this task focused on collecting information and analysing resources that have been created by previous and ongoing dedicated nanosafety efforts by expert communities (both from NEP beneficiaries and external entities), rather than independently developing nanosafety procedures. The results from this task are considered in the context of NEP and interactions with the expert community, with conclusions and recommendations provided in the final section of this report.30 Nov 2023
This document contains the first report on the status of the data management in NFFA Europe Pilot. After a summary of the general philosophy used for the data management, we will briefly recall the solutions implemented, and we will present the initial statistics and/or feedback from partner and users.30 Nov 2023
This deliverable reports on the design and construction of a prototype setup for controlled delivery of nanoparticles in a continuous flow of cell medium for subsequent integration with the operando system developed in deliverable 14.2.