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The October 24, 2011, issue of BNA Daily Environment Report quotes Lynn L. Bergeson, who participated in the October 20, 2011, webinar announcing the release of the National Institute for Nanotechnology’s (NNI) 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy....

The October 24, 2011, issue of BNA Daily Environment Report quotes Lynn L. Bergeson regarding the European Commission’s (EC) recommendation on the definition of nanomaterial, which will have “little to no application or regulatory utility.”...

The October 21, 2011, issue of Pesticide and Chemical Policy quotes Lynn L. Bergeson regarding the National Nanotechnology Institute’s (NNI) 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy, which “appropriately recognizes that additional research is needed to characterize consumer and occupational exposures to nanomaterials.”...

The October 21, 2011, issue of BNA Daily Environment Report quotes Lynn L. Bergeson regarding the possibility that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will have to solicit data on high production volume (HPV) chemicals from Tier 2 manufacturers....

On October 20, 2011, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) released its 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy (Strategy), which is intended to provide guidance to the federal agencies that produce scientific information for risk management, regulatory decision-making, product use, research planning, and public outreach. The Strategy lists the following core research areas providing this information: (1) nanomaterial measurement infrastructure; (2) human...

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C), B&C Consortia Management, L.L.C. (BCCM), The Acta Group, L.L.C. (Acta), and The Acta Group EU, Ltd (Acta EU) are pleased to announce that on October 25, 2011, Joseph E. Plamondon will speak in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the 30th Biennial Western Coatings Symposium on the regulation of polymers under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)...

The European Commission (EC) adopted on October 18, 2011, a Recommendation on the definition of a nanomaterial. The Recommendation “invites” member states, European Union agencies, and economic operators to use the following definition of nanomaterial “in the adoption and implementation of legislation and policy and research programmes concerning products of nanotechnologies”: The Recommendation states that, by December 2014, the EC will review the definition...

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C), B&C Consortia Management, L.L.C. (BCCM), The Acta Group, L.L.C. (Acta), and The Acta Group EU, Ltd (Acta EU) are pleased to announce that on October 20, 2011, from 12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. (EDT), Lynn L. Bergeson will speak during the nanoEHS Workshop Series webinar hosted by the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) on the release of its 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy (Strategy). The event will consist of...

On October 6, 2011, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy held a hearing on “Chemical Risk Assessment: What Works for Jobs and the Economy?” According to the background memorandum, the hearing was intended to explore the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), and the relationship between IRIS and EPA’s regulatory requirements, “specifically whether IRIS is producing high quality...

On September 28, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final guidance on the weight-of-evidence (WoE) (Final WoE Guidance) analysis that it will use to evaluate the results of data submitted in response to test orders issued for Tier 1 screening under the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). This WoE analysis, in turn, will be used to determine what substances merit further study under Tier 2 as substances that have the potential to...