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December 22, 2020

OECD Publishes Reports on Outcome of Project on Advancing Adverse Outcome Pathway Development for Nanomaterial Risk Assessment and Categorization

Lynn L. BergesonCarla N. Hutton

In 2016, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) included the Advancing Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) Development for Nanomaterial Risk Assessment and Categorization (NanoAOP) project in its program of work.  The objective of the project is to contribute to the future development and application of AOPs for manufactured nanomaterial regulatory decision making by following the principles established by the OECD Extended Advisory Group on Molecular Screening and Toxicogenomics (EAGMST).  OECD has published three reports presenting the outcomes of the project: