{"id":14728,"date":"2021-02-24T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/?p=14728"},"modified":"2021-02-24T10:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:32:46","slug":"nanomaterials-relevant-regulatory-definitions-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/nanomaterials-relevant-regulatory-definitions-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanomaterials: relevant regulatory definitions in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the EU regulatory framework there are quite a number of different definitions for the term &ldquo;<span class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Nanomaterial&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;The European Commission updated the common definition of the term &amp;quot;nanomaterial&amp;quot; in 2022:&amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt;&lsquo;Nanomaterial&rsquo; means a natural, incidental or manufactured material consisting of solid particles that are present, either on their own or as identifiable constituent particles in aggregates or agglomerates, and where 50% or more of these particles in the number-based size distribution fulfil at least one of the following conditions:\n&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;\n \t&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;one or more external dimensions of the particle are in the size range 1 nm to 100 nm;&amp;lt;\/li&amp;gt;\n \t&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;the particle has an elongated shape, such as a rod, fibre or tube, where two external dimensions are smaller than 1 nm and the other dimension is larger than 100 nm;&amp;lt;\/li&amp;gt;\n \t&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;the particle has a plate-like shape, where one external dimension is smaller than 1 nm and the other dimensions are larger than 100 nm.&amp;lt;\/li&amp;gt;\n \t&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;In the determination of the particle number-based size distribution, particles with at least two orthogonal external dimensions larger than 100 &mu;m need not be considered.&amp;lt;\/li&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;\/ol&amp;gt;\nHowever, a material with a specific surface area by volume of &amp;lt; 6 m&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;\/sup&amp;gt;\/cm&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;3&amp;lt;\/sup&amp;gt; shall not be considered a nanomaterial.&amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt;https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/chemicals\/nanotech\/pdf\/C_2022_3689_1_EN_ACT_part1_v6.pdf&lt;\/div&gt;\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'>nanomaterial<\/span>&rdquo;. Each of them strongly depends on the field of material application and the respective regulatory legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Nice compilation. Read the full text here: <a href=\"https:\/\/necotox.de\/en\/eu-definitions-for-nanomaterial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/necotox.de\/en\/eu-definitions-for-nanomaterial\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the EU regulatory framework there are quite a number of different definitions for the term \u201cnanomaterial\u201d. Each of them strongly depends on the field of material application and the respective regulatory legislation. Nice compilation. Read the full text here: https:\/\/necotox.de\/en\/eu-definitions-for-nanomaterial\/ &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14960,"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14728\/revisions\/14960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanopartikel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}