EPA Releases Working Guidance for the Nanoscale Material Reporting Rule
On August 14, 2017, EPA released the Working Guidance for the Nanoscale Material Reporting Rule. The Working Guidance considerably narrowed the scope of “reportable chemical substance” from the draft Guidance. EPA considers the Guidance a “working” document because it intends to update the Guidance based on questions the Agency receives. The Working Guidance also discusses […]
Canada imposes new reporting requirements for nanoscale substances.
Canada’s Minister of the Environment is requiring manufacturers and importers of certain nanoscale substances to report information for “the development of a list of nanomaterials in commerce in Canada and subsequent prioritization activities for these substances, which may include risk assessment and risk management activities.” A notice published in the Canada Gazette on July 25 […]
Proposed reporting requirements for nanomaterials released.
Companies that manufacture, import or process nanoscale materials would be subject to reporting requirements under a new proposed rule released today by EPA. EPA is proposing reporting obligations concerning use, exposure, and other factors under section 8(a) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The proposed rule would apply to nanoscale chemical substances in the […]
EPA sued over lack of nanosilver regulations.
On December 16, a group of NGOs sued [PDF] the U.S. EPA over the agency’s failure to regulate nanosilver in consumer products. The plaintiffs, which include the Center for Food Safety, Center for Environmental Health, and Beyond Pesticides, seek to compel EPA to take action in response to their 2008 petition for rulemaking. The groups’ […]
Scientists: 100nm definition for nanoparticles may be "inappropriate."
The 100 nanometer (nm) upper limit for defining nanoparticles may be “potentially inappropriate” and does not reflect the “complexity of ecological interactions” with nanoparticles, according to a viewpoint article [PDF] published in Environmental Sciences and Technology and highlighted by ChemicalWatch. According to a team of Chinese and American scientists, threshold sizes for nanoparticles likely exist […]
EPA Proposes Significant New Use Rules for 37 Chemicals and Nanomaterials
TSCA/SNUR/Nanotechnology: Background Continuing its robust exercise of its expansive TSCA authority, EPA last week released proposed Significant New Use Rules (“SNURs”) under TSCA for 37 chemicals, including 14 nanoengineered carbon compounds. The SNURs cover a wide range of uses, including the manufacture, processing, and import of adhesives, coatings, colorants, lubricants, chemical intermediates, etc., and result […]
France to require mandatory reporting of nanoscale materials in 2013
Nanotechnology: France will implement a compulsory declaration scheme for the quantities and uses of nanoparticle substances or nanomaterials produced in, distributed in, or imported to France January 1, 2013. Information about material identity, quantity, uses, and users will be required from all companies producing, distributing and importing nanomaterials, and public and private research laboratories. The […]
EPA Conditionally Registers Nanosilver Pesticide and NRDC Files Blocking Lawsuit
FIFRA/Nanotechnology: EPA’s Conditional Registration On December 1, 2011, EPA announced that it was conditionally registering a pesticide product containing nanosilver as a new active ingredient. The antimicrobial pesticide product, HeiQ AGS-20, is a silver-based product for use as a preservative for textiles. As a condition of registration, EPA stated that it would require additional data on the product to confirm […]
FDA Regulation of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology: Readers interested in learning about FDA’s regulation of nanotechnology might want to download the free book available here: FDA REGULATION OF NANOTECHNOLOGY . Verdant attorney, Philip Moffat, and many others authored the book over the course of the past several years. This book is a valuable resource to those wanting to learn about regulation in the United […]
Pesticides, Nanoscale Materials, and FIFRA
FIFRA/Nanotechnology: Guest Column: Kathryn Brausch & Irene Hantman Law Clerk & University of Maryland Law Fellow US EPA Office of Civil Enforcement Readers interested in EPA’s regulation of nanoscale materials may want to know about recently proposed policies under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) that would affect the use of nanoscale materials […]