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OECD launches comprehensive Database on ‘Research into the Safety of Manufacture Nanomaterials’
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation & Development) has launched a global online repository of information about and created by research projects that address environmental, human health and safety issues of manufactured nanomaterials. Created by the OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN), the OECD Database on Research into Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials aims to help identify research gaps and assists researchers in future collaborative efforts.
According to the database introduction on the OECD website, the ‘database holds details of completed, current and planned research projects on safety, which are to be updated (electronically) by delegations. This database is also intended to be an inventory of information on research programmes to help the other projects of the WPMN by identifying relevant research projects or storing information derived from the projects of the WPMN,’ including the OECD Sponsorship Programme on the Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials.
Follow these links to find out more about the OECD Database, to access the OECD database, to download a brochure on the OECD Database, or to find out more about the activities of the OECD WPMN.
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