Issue 6, 2024

Safe nanomaterials: from their use, application, and disposal to regulations

Abstract

Nanomaterials are structures with a wide range of applications in the medical, pharmaceutical, food, textile, and electronic industries, reaching more customers worldwide. As a relatively new technological field, the information about the associated risk of nanomaterials in environmental and human health must be addressed and consolidated to develop accurate legislations, frameworks, and guidelines to standardise their use in any field. This review aims to display and context the global applications of nanomaterials, their final disposal, as well as the perspective of the current efforts formulated by various countries (including Mexico and Latin American countries), international official departments and organisations directed to implement regulations on nanomaterials, nanotechnology, and nanoscience matters. In addition, the compiled information includes the tools, initiatives, and strategies to develop regulatory frameworks, such as life cycle assessments, risk assessments, technical tools, and biological models to evaluate their effects on living organisms. Finally, the authors point out the importance of implementing global regulations to promote nanotechnological research according to a precautionary principle focused on an environmental and health protection approach to ensure the use and application of nanotechnologies safely, and responsibly.

Graphical abstract: Safe nanomaterials: from their use, application, and disposal to regulations

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
09 12 2023
Accepted
11 12 2023
First published
15 1 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 1583-1610

Safe nanomaterials: from their use, application, and disposal to regulations

J. A. Chávez-Hernández, A. J. Velarde-Salcedo, G. Navarro-Tovar and C. Gonzalez, Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 1583 DOI: 10.1039/D3NA01097J

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