How can you ascertain the release of nanomaterials from products into the environment?

Since only very small amounts of nanomaterials are found in the environment, the detection is very difficult and methodologically very demanding. The high natural background of particles complicates this even further. Moreover, since the analysis is very complex, time-consuming and expensive, synthetically engineered nanomaterials have only been detected in the environment in a few cases so far.

• Read more about this topic in our cross cutting article – “Detecting nanomaterials in the environment”!