tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11132082836439425342024-02-03T08:46:25.928-08:00ICON blogA blog on and for the International Council on Nanotechnology. ICON is a multistakeholder group dedicated to the safe, responsible and beneficial development of nanotechnology.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-26891172219541182732010-09-27T06:04:00.000-07:002010-09-27T06:04:00.078-07:00Nanoinformatics: Making sense out of nanotechnology informationThe broad area of research and development that can be accurately described under the umbrella term "nanotechnology" has undergone a breathtaking expansion since the inauguration of the National Nanotechnology Initiative nearly 10 years ago. With that expansion has come an enormous quantity and variety of data. Data about material properties, nanodevices, nanosystems, <a href="http://iconnanoblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/too-much-data-too-little-context.html">environmental, health and safety impacts</a>, etc., continue to accumulate in various <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/virtualjournal.cfm">databases</a> and information repositories. Understanding how best to organize, collate and increase the utility of these vast and diverse data sets is the goal of a new <b><a href="http://nanotechinformatics.org/">nanoinformatics</a></b> project.<br />
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The field of <b>informatics </b>rests at the intersection among data, systems and people, and seeks to transform raw data into information that can then form new knowledge. <i>Nanoinformatics is a name being applied to informatics as it relates to the data, systems and people engaged in nanotechnology research and development.</i> To bring some cohesion to the nanotechnology researchers, informatics experts, government policy makers and other stakeholders potentially affected by nanoinformatics, a collaborative roadmapping workshop is being held this November in the Washington, DC area. More information about the workshop and the participating organizations can be found at <a href="http://nanotechinformatics.org/overview"><b>Nanoinformatics 2010</b></a>. The call for papers is still open.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-84594715673733803642010-09-23T06:12:00.000-07:002010-09-23T06:12:42.437-07:00Nano Safety Training Materials are on the Way--OSHA awards Susan Harwood Training Grant to Rice TeamI recently received word about the success of an OSHA <a href="http://www.osha.gov/dte/sharwood/index.html">Susan Harwood Targeted Topic Grant</a> proposal I led to develop and deliver safety training modules and short courses for small-to-medium sized businesses that handle engineered nanomaterials. Ours was one of only 16 proposals out of a field of 168 submissions to succeed, and it garnered the largest award. It was also the only award to address the topic of nanotechnology. The full list of awardees can be found at <a href="http://www.osha.gov/dte/sharwood/2010_grant_targeted_recipients.html">the OSHA website</a>.<br />
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This award builds on the work ICON has done with the <a href="http://goodnanoguide,org/">GoodNanoGuide </a>and enables our team to develop a set of training materials ranging from one-hour modules to an eight-hour short course that will equip trainers, employers and workers with the information and resources they need to work safely with nanomaterials. We will pilot these modules and short courses during the grant year at our partner institution, the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at University of Texas School of Public Health here in Houston and at select professional society meetings. Ultimately, the materials will be web-published for broader distribution.<br />
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Many thanks go out to the partners who worked with me to submit a winning proposal, especially: <br />
Sarah Felknor and Amber Mitchell of The Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health<br />
Bruce Lippy of The Lippy Group (co-author of the <a href="http://nanorisk.blogspot.com/2010/09/nanotechnology-and-hazardous-waste.html">Nanotechnology and Hazardous Waste Worker Training paper)</a><br />
Dominick Fazarro of University of Texas-Tyler<br />
Walt Trybula of Texas State University-San Marcos<br />
John Morawetz of the International Chemical Workers Union Center<br />
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<a href="http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=18387">US Department of Labor's OSHA awards $2.75 million in Susan Harwood Targeted Topic Training Grants for safety and health training</a>Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-54852478720707010082010-06-08T13:43:00.000-07:002010-06-08T14:37:15.133-07:00Nanotechnology and Public Health: A free webinarHere is a long overdue link to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Public Health Grand Rounds event “<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds/archives/2010/04-april.htm">Preventing Adverse Health Effects from Nanotechnology</a>” in which I participated in April. The link takes you to the CDC website where the whole 70-minute webinar can be viewed and downloaded. First a little about the PHGR from the CDC website.<br /><blockquote>The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly series created to further strengthen CDC’s common scientific culture and foster discussion and debate on major public health issues. Each session of the Public Health Grand Rounds will focus on key issues and challenges related to a specific health topic, including cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different interventions. The sessions will also highlight how CDC is already addressing these challenges and discuss the recommendations for future research and practice.</blockquote>My invitation to participate came from the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/">nanotechnology folks at NIOSH</a>. Other panelists included Paul Schulte (NIOSH), Mark Hoover (NIOSH), Sally Tinkle (NIH/NIEHS), Vince Castranova (NIOSH) and Bill Hunt (GA Tech). I was asked to speak about global efforts in nanotechnology occupational safety.<br /><br />I give dozens of talks every year but this was an atypical event for many reasons. First, this was a <span style="font-style: italic;">highly</span> scripted event. My formal remarks and slides (which begin at about 41 minutes in) were scrutinized in advance at least three times and I was strongly encouraged to strip out all extraneous words, transitions and extemporaneous comments. This is not my usual style but was apparently needed to accommodate the diverse crowd and the very tight timeline. If you make it to the end, you'll get to the unscripted Q&A (right after my remarks) which was extensive and enlightening.<br /><br />Second, not one but two institute directors were present. The PHGR are organized by and for CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden so naturally he was present. Coincidentally, NIH Director Francis S. Collins happened to be in Atlanta to meet with Dr. Frieden on other matters and was also in attendance. Both were very engaged and came up to the podium afterward to continue the conversation. It's not everyday that I get to address two institute directors about my favorite subject.<br /><br />Finally, it's not uncommon when speaking at a facility to be offered a tour of some sort. However, it's not everyday that the facility tour includes the CDC global emergency response center (think NASA control room for ebola) AND the labs where the anthrax samples from the 2001 terrorist attacks were analyzed. Said tour was led by the head scientist in charge of the anthrax testing. Geek heaven!Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-61344160812181890262010-05-05T10:38:00.000-07:002010-05-05T10:47:17.836-07:00Upcoming Webinar on Nano SafetyInterested in learning more about nanotechnology safety? Join me and four colleagues for a <a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/nanotech-mems/blogs/blog-display/blogs/small-times-blog/post987_6999430165977207731.html">webinar</a> hosted by Small Times. (Sorry about the registration fee, which I am assured is needed to pay for the cost of webcast and phone charges. I do not earn a fee for this gig.)<br /><br />DATE: May 27, 2010<br />TIME (US): 1:00 PM ET | 12:00 PM CT | 10:00 AM PT<br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><blockquote><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Understanding Nanotechnology Safety<br /></span>This seminar is of interest to anyone concerned about the potential health hazards of exposure to nanoengineered materials. Workers may be exposed to nanomaterials in many different manufacturing environments, and this seminar will educate them on the real risks. The seminar is also designed to educate employers about what they need to know to ensure worker safety and what types of nano materials are of the most concern. Of significant interest to CEOs/CTOs of technology companies (SMEs), Health and Safety officers of technology companies (SMEs), Government officials (HSE), Toxicology experts, and venture capitalists.</span><br /></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-10829103850874576012010-05-04T11:36:00.000-07:002010-05-04T12:34:33.410-07:00Nano BlogsThis latest compilation of <a href="http://becomingacomputertechnician.com/?page_id=98">people or groups who blog about nanotechnology</a> just crossed my desk today. The "Forward Thinking Blogs" compilation is grouped into categories based on the publisher. Categories include professionals, women, fans, specialty audiences and others. My Google Alert picked it up because this site is listed, as are the <a href="http://icon.rice.edu">parent ICON site</a> and my personal <a href="http://nanorisk.blogspot.com">NanoRisk blog</a>. While I might quibble with some of the categorizations, e.g., a news aggregator is not the same thing as a blog, the list has many of the blogs I read regularly. Noticeably absent are other favorites, including <a href="http://2020science.org">2020science</a>, <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/semiconductors/nanotechnology/nanoclast">nanoclast</a> and <a href="http://cientifica.eu/blog/tntlog-2/">TNTlog</a>, to name a few. Nonetheless, this list is a good place to start if you're looking for news and commentary on nanotechnology.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-24750850221347535822010-02-26T06:41:00.000-08:002010-02-26T07:47:39.677-08:00Why Don't Scientists Submit Post-Peer-Review Comments?When we were setting up the <a href="http://iconnanoblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/too-much-data-too-little-context.html">rating system</a> at the <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/virtualjournal.cfm">Virtual Journal of Nano-EHS</a> there was much hand-wringing about what such a system would do to the credibility of our organization and to academic discourse in general. Many within our advisory group hoped such a system would allow non-experts to get a better sense of the expert community's opinions about the quality of papers in this new field, which has been recognized to be somewhat uneven. But some prominent academics passionately argued that opening up the vast database to user comments would devolve into the kind of petty mudslinging, anonymous attacks and overall lack of civility one can find on other sites where public comments are permitted.<br /><br />It turns out neither group has seen its hopes or fears realized. In the nearly 9 months since we implemented a system wherein one can rate a paper between 1-5 stars and provide a comment as an option, 34 ratings have been submitted on 33 papers in a database that now includes over 3800 papers. Nineteen of those ratings had comments attached. The ICON database is by no means unique in the under-usage of its rating and commenting functions.<br /><br /><a href="http://shirleywho.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/a-brief-analysis-of-commenting-at-bmc-plos-and-bmj/">This analysis</a> of the usage of public commenting functions at three major scientific repositories, Public Library of Science (<a href="http://plos.org/">PLoS</a>), BioMed Central (<a href="http://biomedcentral.com/">BMC</a>) and <a href="http://www.bmj.com/">BMJ</a>, found that whereas commenting is widespread in newspaper articles, blogs, consumer websites and many other internet sites, scientists don't seem all that interested in commenting on scientific publications. The promised followup post sharing insights into why this might be has not yet been published but commenters to the original analysis shared some of their thoughts. Among the reasons cited were the disconnect between how scientists read papers (saved pdfs) vs. where the comments reside (online), the availability of other social networking tools for indicating approval or disapproval such as FriendFeed and Digg; and even the <a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/11/16/how-meaningful-are-user-ratings-this-article-4-5-stars/">inherent flaws in rating processes</a>.<br /><br />In looking through the ratings at our site, I am gratified to see that the people who chose to leave comments for the most part provided brief but specific analyses of the merits or shortcomings of the rated paper. There appears to be no pent-up desire among the nano-EHS community to abuse our forum in inappropriate ways. But is there an unmet need for people to assess nano-EHS papers post-peer-review? If so, what other mechanisms should we consider employing? Feedback is welcome.<br /><br />[Hat tip to <a href="http://www.twitter.com/materialsdave">@materialsdave</a> for retweeting <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@solidstateux">@solidstateux</a> on the blog posting that prodded me to write this.]Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-71102863371549569872010-02-23T11:59:00.001-08:002010-02-23T11:59:55.389-08:00New GoodNanoGuide SlideshowCheck out the latest SlideShare Presentation on the GoodNanoGuide.<div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_3259374"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/GoodNanoGuide/good-nano-guide-introduction-2010-02-3259374" title="Good Nano Guide Introduction 2010 02">Good Nano Guide Introduction 2010 02</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=goodnanoguide-introduction-2010-02-100223133045-phpapp01&stripped_title=good-nano-guide-introduction-2010-02-3259374" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=goodnanoguide-introduction-2010-02-100223133045-phpapp01&stripped_title=good-nano-guide-introduction-2010-02-3259374" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/GoodNanoGuide">GoodNanoGuide</a>.</div></div>Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-34501200320469437502009-08-20T06:42:00.000-07:002009-08-21T06:55:36.791-07:00Comments Welcome on Paper Linking Nanoparticles to Worker Deaths in ChinaNearly 36 hours after lifting the embargo on its paper, the European Respiratory Journal finally made the paper available at its website. You can link to the abstract via the <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/details.cfm?rid=47294">ICON Virtual Journal</a> or go directly to the <a href="http://erj.ersjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/09031936.00178308v1">ERJ site</a>.<br /><br />If you go through the VJ, you are welcome to take a moment and submit your thoughts on the quality of the work and its potential impact on the field using our new-ish <a href="http://iconnanoblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/too-much-data-too-little-context.html">rating system</a>. Recently added features of the system include the options to identify which papers have been rated <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/rated_latest.cfm">most recently</a> and to sort papers in the VJ by their <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/ratings_browse.cfm?Rate=5">average rating</a>. These tools will become more useful as the number of ratings increase.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-91850955424078616342009-08-18T17:03:00.000-07:002009-11-18T06:39:42.532-08:00Physicians link worker illness to nanoparticle exposure<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">A research paper released today in the European Respiratory Journal documents for the first time a clinical case in which a team of medical doctors concluded that exposure to nanoparticles was determined to have resulted in harm to workers. [The link is not live but an abstract is available <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/details.cfm?rid=47294">here</a>.] The medical case study documents in clinical detail the cases of seven women who were hospitalized for pulmonary health problems after workplace exposure to ~30 nm nanoparticles contained in or produced by the spraying of a polyacrylic ester paste. An extensive clinical evaluation was undertaken to determine the cause of the workers’ respiratory symptoms, which included shortness of breath, buildup of fluid in the chest cavity (pleural effusion) and around the heart (pericardial effusion) and itching on the face and arms. The clinical findings included nonspecific pulmonary inflammation, pulmonary fibrosis and foreign-body granulomas in the pleura. Ultimately, two of the women died from respiratory failure and others exhibited persistent lung dysfunction 20 months after first being hospitalized. The women’s clinical symptoms are consistent with the outcomes of animal studies in which nanoparticles have been intentionally introduced into the lungs.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">The evidence for implicating nanoparticles in the Chinese factory incident is persuasive. The paper contains electron microscopy images of the fluid and lung tissues extracted from the patients that clearly show round nanoparticles or nanoparticle clusters of ~30 nm. The nanoparticles were found in the chest fluid and in cytoplasm and nucleoplasm of the pulmonary epithelial cells. Yes, these were nanoparticles, and yes, some nanoparticles may be able to gain access to parts of the deep lung that are less accessible to larger particles which the body more effectively filters out. Less clear is what the nanoparticles were composed of and whether they were intentionally introduced into the paste or created as a result of the spraying or heating processes. If the latter, then they were what we call “incidental” nanoparticles rather than the intentionally designed “manufactured” nanoparticles.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">The exposures, which could not be quantified, took place over the course of between 5-13 months in which the workers operated a machine that converted a polyacrylic ester paste into tiny droplets and sprayed these droplets onto large boards used in the printing and decorating industry. The boards were then heated and dried with the resulting vapor removed via a gas ventilation unit on the machine.</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"><i style="">Except the vapor wasn’t ventilated. </i></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> According to the article, the gas ventilator had broken 5 months before the onset of symptoms, which, when coupled with the lack of windows and closed door, meant that there was little air circulation and therefore no mechanism to remove the vapor from the workspace. Moreover, the only personal protective equipment available to the workers were cotton gauze masks, which would not be expected to filter out particles as small as ~30 nm. Even if the masks had been protective, they were worn only sporadically as the women appeared to have been uninformed about the possible toxicity of the materials to which they were exposed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> This almost certainly could have been avoided by the application of the “Golden Rule” of workplace safety: when you’re not sure of the hazards, do everything you can to minimize exposure. This is just the kind of industrial accident the <a href="http://goodnanoguide.org/"><span style="">GoodNanoGuide</span></a> is intended to help prevent. For example, the page on <a href="http://www.goodnanoguide.org/tiki-index.php?page=Liquid+Nanodispersion+Spraying+Controls"><span style="">liquid nanodispersion spraying controls</span></a> describes the importance of ventilating the exhaust from the process and employing personal protective equipment as a secondary measure of protection. According to the latest research from the <a href="http://origin.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/"><span style="">National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health</span></a>, the 30-nm particles could have been blocked by an inexpensive, spray-paint respirator sold at your local home improvement store such as <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?keyword=respirator&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053"><span style="">these</span></a> or even <a href="http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Health/Safety/Products/Catalog/?PC_7_RJH9U5230GE3E02LES9MG812H2_nid=MWX38JNK06beF3RH7CD92Ngl"><span style="">these</span></a>. It is possible to work safely with nanoparticles IF the hazards are recognized and the exposures limited.</span></div><span style="font-family:georgia;">What a tragedy.<br /><br />Here are three important take-aways from this incident. </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><b style="">Workplace safety is of paramount importance wherever hazards are possible. </b>When hazards are unknown or poorly understood, steps must be taken to reduce exposure to the hazard. In this case, this means first employing engineering controls such as ventilation of fumes and then relying on personal protective equipment such as respiratory masks but only as a secondary measure of protection. Such tools exist and could have prevented this tragedy if used correctly.</span></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><b style="">More investigation is needed to establish the facts surrounding the exposures so that similar incidents can be avoided.</b> The evidence demonstrating that nanoparticles ended up in the workers’ lungs is compelling and persuasive. What is less well established is the type of nanoparticle found in the tissues and cells, the dose received by the workers and the mechanism of injury. It is not clear, for example, whether the nanoparticles themselves caused the injury or whether the combination of nanoparticles and other chemicals in the complex mixture resulted in an antagonistic effect. Regardless of these details, this work is a significant and well-documented clinical case study.</span></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><b>Research on and the development of tools for communication about occupational health issues associated with nanoparticles should be accelerated.</b> <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/report.cfm">Analysis</a> of the ICON <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/virtualjournal.cfm">Nano-EHS database</a> reveals a critical gap in nanomaterial research of relevance to occupational health<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2qmIw794uY7jSZMaMgwfOUuYCA0sPCxvGt3LZ6ECmrLHKevaebzwoYb9y5Xhyphenhyphen6o0Esf_zLon-u9n10fBm9qSMEH2R9cwZtAa2dW_d36NyI4jp0p6JNXbrdBzpOLYT_dPk4euaZW2DBI/s1600-h/2009-08-18-Worker-RelevantPapers.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2qmIw794uY7jSZMaMgwfOUuYCA0sPCxvGt3LZ6ECmrLHKevaebzwoYb9y5Xhyphenhyphen6o0Esf_zLon-u9n10fBm9qSMEH2R9cwZtAa2dW_d36NyI4jp0p6JNXbrdBzpOLYT_dPk4euaZW2DBI/s320/2009-08-18-Worker-RelevantPapers.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371032514424054930" border="0" /></a> as compared with research on nanotechnology environmental, health and safety research in general. So while knowledge about toxicity and hazard grows, understanding how to apply this knowledge in a practical occupational setting still presents a major challenge. While this study highlights a need for fundamental worker protections, better tools are also needed to communicate about potential risk along the supply chain, including during business-to-business transactions, so that consumers of all types have the information they need to handle nanomaterial-containing or nanomaterial-producing products safely. International trade agreements may be a mechanism for better enforcement of worker protections.</span><br /></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br />For more perspectives from an international group of experts, please click on over to Andrew Maynard’s <a href="http://2020science.org/"><span style="">2020science blog</span></a>. <p></p></span>Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-64425234112686840372009-08-14T06:32:00.000-07:002009-08-14T06:41:11.128-07:00Safety comes first for nanotechnologyA new piece published today at <a href="http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachArticle.aspx?cid=4280&codi=60116&lr=1">Environmental Expert</a> by attorney Lynn Bergeson, herself a <a href="http://www.nanolabweb.com/index.cfm/action/main.default.viewArticle/articleID/282/CFID/3523854/CFTOKEN/64649735/index.html">nano environmental expert</a>, describes in some detail the goals and objectives of the <a href="http://www.goodnanoguide.org">GoodNanoGuide</a>, an online resource for sharing information about safe handling of nanoparticles in an occupational setting. Believe me when I say such information is more timely than ever. Many many thanks to Lynn for this unsolicited endorsement of our project. I'm looking forward to the nano-safety skits that Lynn, Shaun Clancy and I are organizing for <a href="http://nanobusiness2009.com/">NanoBusiness 2009</a>. Should be fun. Stay tuned.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-26001836994688327832009-08-03T13:12:00.000-07:002009-08-03T13:48:48.139-07:00Advancing Eco-Responsible Nanotechnology<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A new synopsis of findings from the </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://cohesion.rice.edu/centersandinst/icon/events.cfm?doc_id=12964">ICON workshop on Eco-Responsible Design and Disposal of Engineered Nanomaterials</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> has been published in </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/nn9006835">ACS Nano</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (subscription required). First a little history: ICON has had since its inception in 2004 an interest in identifying and closing critical knowledge gaps that currently limit our ability to predict the impacts of engineered nanomaterials on living systems. Toward this end, we have convened a series of workshops to identify and highlight these gaps, with the aim of focusing governmental and other resources and attention on the most pressing issues. The first two workshops (full report </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://icon.rice.edu/projects.cfm?doc_id=12220">here</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">) addressed impacts on living organisms; the third held on March 9-10, 2009 near Rice University addressed the environment explicitly.</span><br /></div><br /><style>finitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 159 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} @font-face {font-family:Verdana; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:536871559 0 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:6.0pt; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; text-indent:.25in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language:EN-US;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Convened with support from the UK Science and Innovation Network (our friends at the British Consulate-General Houston), the National Science Foundation, the TX-UK Collaborative and Nanonet, the environmental workshop</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">attracted 57 experts from the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. The first theme covered what by now is fairly standard fodder for a nanoEHS workshop:</span><br /></div><ul style="font-family: georgia;"><li> <div align="left">Theme 1: Eco-Responsible Design—Engineering Environmentally Benign Nanoparticles</div> <ul><li> <div align="left">Metrology, Quantification and Tracing NPs in the Atmospheric, Terrestrial and Aquatic Environment</div> </li><li> <div align="left">Structure-Activity Relationships for Nanoparticles in the Environment</div> </li><li> <div align="left">Toward Predicting Multimedia Fate and Transport</div> </li><li> <div align="left">Computational Modeling of Nanoparticle Modifications in the Environment</div></li></ul></li></ul><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:Arial;" >The second theme on disposal has seen far less discussion and analysis and it was here that I felt significant new ground was broken.<br /></span><ul style="font-family: georgia;"><li> <div align="left">Theme 2: Eco-Responsible Disposal—Waste Management of Nanomaterials throughout Lifecycle</div> <ul><li> <div align="left">Responsible Minimization and Disposal of Nanomaterial Production Wastes</div> </li><li> <div align="left">Release and Exposure Scenarios/Source Dynamics</div> </li></ul> <ul><li> <div align="left">Impact of Nanoparticles on Ennvironmental Protection Infrastructure</div> </li><li> <div align="left">Information Needs for Waste Disposal Companies and Recyclers</div> </li></ul> </li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Authored by workshop planning team members Pedro Alvarez and Vicki Colvin (Rice), Jamie Lead (University of Birmingham) and Vicki Stone (Edinburgh Napier University), the ACS Nano Focus reiterates some of the major themes from </span>the first workshop report, which just serves to highlight how little has changed in the two years since its publication. </div><br />Here's an excerpt from the abstract:<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>Critical research needs to advance this urgent priority include (1) structure-activity relationships to predict functional stability and chemistry of MNMs in the environment and to discern properties that increase their bioavailability, bioaccumulation, and toxicity; (2) standardized protocols to assess MNM bioavailability, trophic transfer, and sublethal effects; and (3) validated multiphase fate and transport models that consider various release scenarios and predict the form and concentration of MNMs at the point of exposure. These efforts would greatly benefit from the development of robust analytical techniques to characterize and to track MNMs in the environment and to validate models and from shared reference MNM libraries.</blockquote></div>Sound familiar? Yeah, I know. Stay tuned for the full report, which, like all ICON products will be freely available at our website.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-29058882026975557252009-06-18T05:00:00.000-07:002009-06-18T06:01:44.951-07:00Too much data, too little contextThose of us who have been working in nanotechnology since the beginning of the decade have witnessed the remarkable growth and evolution of research into engineered nanomaterials' environmental, health and safety impacts. In 2001, there were virtually no papers addressing the impacts of intentionally manufactured nanomaterials.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Fast forward to now. This graph shows the explosive growth of research papers covering aspects of nano-EHS between 2001 and 2008. In a few short years we've gone from no data to, one could argue, too much data. Too much data, you say? Then explain why every newspaper article and policy report I read on the subject ends up saying basically the same thing: we still don't know enough about engineered nanomaterials to quantify risks.<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbQ4byLn1-o0T-hFROat0xP5BCoG_R5E6HdqN1L3VQxRPb_z_gTCuIEUAXnSuwf_3wDTE0Or1enGM-0koQEitXGVnCXCr6TJIsV0JiPbOlQBAvWQs4WUiAdLq6ALYb620ekoH1xZbzIXc/s1600-h/NanoEHSPapers01-08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbQ4byLn1-o0T-hFROat0xP5BCoG_R5E6HdqN1L3VQxRPb_z_gTCuIEUAXnSuwf_3wDTE0Or1enGM-0koQEitXGVnCXCr6TJIsV0JiPbOlQBAvWQs4WUiAdLq6ALYb620ekoH1xZbzIXc/s320/NanoEHSPapers01-08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348375312787652274" border="0" /></a>The reasons are myriad and include the slow development and acceptance of standards for toxicity testing, materials characterization and even terminology; the dearth of validated protocols for testing; and other ripples of the culture clash that ensued when materials scientists, aerosol physicists, environmental engineers, and toxicologists all started to learn to collaborate.<br /><br />People who have witnessed the emergence of other interdisciplinary fields of inquiry could have told us it would take some time to work out and then propagate the best research practices. But there seems to be a special urgency to nano-EHS research as governments, NGOs, companies, attorneys and other interested parties grapple with how this body of data should be used to inform decision-making. The various "solutions to the nano-EHS issue" being bandied about, including regulation, insurance policies, voluntary codes, risk markets, etc., all rely upon good quality data that is interpreted correctly. Journalists need to get a feel for what a reasonable community of experts thinks about this or that new paper that demonstrated the hazards of a particular nanomaterial in a particular laboratory experiment.<br /><br />In short, context and analysis are critical.<br /><br />Once upon a time, ICON thought it could provide this context and, indeed, we've produced a few <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/resources.cfm?doc_id=12208">backgrounders</a> that review and analyze hot topics in nano-EHS. But this function is best performed by the community at large, those of you who are also wrestling with questions about choice of medium, dose, exposure route, particle sizing technique and other minutiae of life in the lab.<br /><br />Starting this week, the ICON Virtual Journal aims to provide you the opportunity to shape future nano-EHS research practice by commenting on papers in our database. Despite an overwhelmingly positive response to this idea from people we surveyed during the conception and development phase, there remains some discomfort with the idea of people passing judgment on papers that have already passed through peer review. (Because we all know the peer review process is perfect.) Here are the top two reasons <span style="font-style: italic;">your peers</span> gave for wanting this rating system:<br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Papers of high quality should be recognized so they can serve as models for other researchers in this field</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">This will help journalists, the public and other lay audiences know which research is the best, which will inform the public dialogue over nano’s risks and benefits</span></li></ul>Now what could be wrong with recognizing papers of outstanding quality so that the field as a whole gravitates toward the best practices and people on the outside understand the implications of new work? Yes, yes, we still have issues to work out with respect to standards, etc. but in addition to giving a snapshot of where the field is now, the ratings could actually advance the discussion of best practices and broaden it to include underrepresented voices. "You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one."<br /><br />Unless you're a <a href="http://cohesion.rice.edu//centersandinst/icon/about.cfm?doc_id=13206">troll</a>, I invite you to register at the <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/virtualjournal.cfm">site</a> and rate 5 papers with which you are very familiar. Then email 10 colleagues and encourage them to do the same. (Start with the cranky ones who are always griping to you about the @#^% that gets published these days in the vanity journals.) Choose a non-identifying username if you want (students seeking future employment) or publish under your own name as a way of demonstrating how smart and thoughtful you are (consultants, tenured professors). Either way, we'll be able to pull inappropriate content off the site as needed.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-18215573085588339792009-06-05T08:46:00.001-07:002009-06-05T08:53:03.073-07:00Safety Professionals Give Warm Reception to GoodNanoGuide<span style="font-family:georgia;">The American Industrial Hygiene Association held its annual meeting this year in Toronto with a theme of </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.aiha.org/aihce09/">Discoveries Beyond Borders</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">. After the Monday morning keynote address by Dr. Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.xprize.org/">X PRIZE Foundation</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">, the next two keynotes were on issues AIHA </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.safetyonline.com/article.mvc/AIHce-A-Value-In-Any-Economy-0001?VNETCOOKIE=NO">has identified</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> as “two major challenges in the field: sustainability and nanotechnology.” Addressing the issue of sustainability was Edward L. Quevedo, JD, special counsel chair for the sustainability group at Farella Braun and Martel. (An interview with Mr. Quevedo about his keynote is posted </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.aiha.org/podcasts/aihce/2009/MH%20Podcast%20Kenote%20w%20Voice%20over%20%28Branded%20AH%29.mp3">here</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">.) </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">My talk kicked off Wednesday’s </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.aiha.org/aihce09/education/wednesday.aspx">focus on nanotechnology</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">. Before and after the keynote talk I was able to hang out at NIOSH’s exposition booth where I was graciously provided an internet-connected computer on which to live-demo the </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.goodnanoguide.org/">GoodNanoGuide</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> to passersby. But the invitation to speak before a crowd of about 1000 occupational safety professionals provided an ideal opportunity to formally launch the GoodNanoGuide, an international online collaborative wiki designed to create a forum for people seeking to work with engineered nanomaterials safely. The format of the keynote address did not allow for questions, so AIHA set aside a separate time and place for an “Ask the Expert” session later on Wednesday morning. This session was attended by about a hundred people and we eschewed the formal structure of me sitting up on a dais for a more informal conversational mode. This involved me running up and down the aisles passing the microphone back and forth among the questioners, myself and others in the audience better equipped to answer a given question. (Most times, this was Chuck Geraci, Laura Hodson or Donna Heidel from NIOSH who could report on specific research being done at the institute to inform occupational practice.)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Feedback to the talk and to the GoodNanoGuide was positive and we noted a major spike in visits to the site during the meeting. But even more importantly, we are already beginning to field requests to join the GoodNanoGuide community. (We map their locations </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=115128103396540564529.00046b89964a6c695901a&ll=32.546813,3.515625&spn=163.079408,360&z=1">here</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">.) This is vital because the site will only grow into the knowledge base we all want it to become if a diverse and robust community of experts contributes. Join us by visiting the GoodNanoGuide </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.goodnanoguide.org/tiki-index.php?page=How%20to%20Help">here</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> and registering as a contributor. </span><br /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_1538342"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/kristenkulinowski/20090603aihcekeynotekulinowski?type=powerpoint" title="20090603AIHceKeynoteKulinowski">20090603AIHceKeynoteKulinowski</a><object style="margin: 0px;" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=2009-06-03-aihce-keynote-kulinowskifordistribution-090605095948-phpapp02&stripped_title=20090603aihcekeynotekulinowski"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=2009-06-03-aihce-keynote-kulinowskifordistribution-090605095948-phpapp02&stripped_title=20090603aihcekeynotekulinowski" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">OpenOffice presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/kristenkulinowski">Kristen Kulinowski</a>.</div></div>Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-61227141284720464702009-05-15T07:00:00.000-07:002009-05-15T08:44:03.079-07:00Remember, Nano-EHS Researchers are People TooI need your help. ICON is preparing a modification to our <a href="http://bit.ly/ICONVJ">Virtual Journal of Nano-EHS</a> to allow users to rate papers they have read. While our survey on this topic generated an overwhelmingly <a href="http://bit.ly/uuCxl">positive response</a>, we recognize that allowing the community to rate papers that have already passed through peer review is potentially sensitive. We want to make it clear that thoughtful, incisive commentary is welcome and trolls will be banned. Please help by submitting your thoughts on how to construct a useful Comment Guidelines policy that helps raters understand the purpose of the ratings and the "rules" for playing nice in the sandbox. If there are good examples out there relevant to scientific discussions (as opposed to consumer product sites such as Amazon) that would be helpful as well.
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<br />Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-34887766821372800282009-05-05T06:47:00.000-07:002009-05-05T08:27:40.440-07:00NanoEHS: Preaching to the Choir or Missionary Work in Hostile Territory?I spent most of yesterday in a dimly lit room of Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center, attending the <a href="http://nsti.org/Nanotech2009/symposia/Environment_Society.html">EHS track</a> of the NSTI Nanotech 2009 conference, for which I organized the afternoon session on workplace practices. I have done this kind of thing before for NSTI, having put together a session on <a href="http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2005/symposia/healthenviro.html">Nanotechnology and Society</a> for the 2005 meeting in Anaheim. What a difference four years makes. <br /><br />Then: Keynotes focused on enormous potential of nanotech to solve societal problems.<br />Now: Keynote speaker from Bayer Materials Science spent much of his time talking about safety, minimizing exposure and engineering controls <span style="font-style: italic;">before</span> getting to Baytubes.<br /><br />Then: The EHS session was billed as a special symposium and was a hodgepodge of science, standards, regulation and policy.<br />Now: The EHS session was a stand-alone track and there were enough submissions to have separate sessions on toxicology, workplace practices and regulatory/policy issues.<br /><br />Then: This session garnered a smallish crowd. <br />Now: The room was packed for toxicology and full enough for occupational practices.<br /><br />Then: The crowd was excited about nanotech's potential but curious about why we needed to discuss "societal" impacts.<br />Now: The attendees were savvy about the complexity of issues associated with understanding nanomaterials' impacts.<br /><br />On that last point, I was pleased to hear attendees pressing the toxicology speakers during Q&A to be explicit about what type of nanomaterials were tested, what dose metrics were employed, whether residual metal particles were present, etc. The questions demonstrated a level of sophistication not seen back in 2005 when most people wanted to know: Are these things dangerous or not? <br /><br />OK so one person asked Val Vallyathan, a NIOSH researcher talking about the nanotube-asbestos comparison, the naive question, "So, are carbon nanotubes 'the next asbestos' or not?" To which he replied, "The current studies are inconclusive. We can't say without systematic studies varying the dose, animal model, etc."<br /><br />I know there are now whole meetings devoted to nanoEHS research, and that societies such as SOT are offering extended tracks on nanotoxicology. One of my colleagues in the nanoEHS space said that he goes to a lot of these meetings where he feels like he's preaching to the choir. The NSTI meeting has always had a more optimistic, business development, applications orientation where raising safety issues can feel more like missionary work in hostile territory. So seeing the EHS issue penetrate the NSTI meeting to this extent leads me to the conclusion that these communities are finally coming together in a way that bodes well for nanomaterial stewardship. <br />Back to the meeting!Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-79918061522459848502009-05-01T08:24:00.000-07:002009-05-01T08:33:24.347-07:00Article Published on GoodNanoGuideThe Spring Issue of <span style="font-style: italic;">Nanotechnology Law and Business</span><span> is out now </span><span>(subscription only) </span><span>with an article penned by myself and <a href="http://www.crowell.com/Professionals/Matthew-Jaffe">Matthew Jaffe</a> of Crowell & Moring entitled, "<a href="http://www.nanolabweb.com/index.cfm/action/main.default.viewArticle/articleID/275/CFID/3523854/CFTOKEN/64649735/index.html">The GoodNanoGuide: A Novel Approach for Developing Good Practices for Handling Engineered Nanomaterials in an Occupational Setting</a>." In it we describe the history, structure and purpose of the project. For more information, see this <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/kristenkulinowski/20090326goodnanoguide">slideshow</a> or join us next week at the NSTI <a href="http://iconnanoblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/icon-at-nanotech-2009.html">Nanotech 2009</a> conference.<br /></span>Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-28134708234818409032009-05-01T07:58:00.000-07:002009-05-01T11:01:57.640-07:00Five ICON members listed among Top 10 NanoEHS ExpertsThe Spring Issue of the journal <span style="font-style: italic;">Nanotechnology Law and Business</span> has a listing of its <a href="http://www.nanolabweb.com/index.cfm/action/main.default.viewArticle/articleID/282/CFID/3523854/CFTOKEN/64649735/index.html">Top Ten Experts in Environmental, Health, and Safety Issues Related to Engineered Nanomaterials</a> (subscription required). These people are described as
<br /><blockquote>ten individuals with substantial expertise in environmental, health and safety issues related to engineered nanomaterials. We expect these individuals to play leading roles in nanotechnology law and business.
<br /></blockquote>I am pleased to report that five out of the ten experts listed participate on ICON's steering or executive committee.
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And thanks to Matthew Jaffe for sending this news along.
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<br />Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-32588792311252871622009-04-28T16:06:00.000-07:002009-04-28T16:29:19.230-07:00ICON at Nanotech 2009The <a href="http://nsti.org/Nanotech2009/">Nanotech Conference and Expo 2009</a> (May 3-7) organized by NSTI promises to be a week filled with nano goodness. For those who haven't yet planned every last minute here is a schedule of activities that ICON is hosting or involved with:
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Monday</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:30-3:30 pm</span> <a href="http://nsti.org/Nanotech2009/symposia/Environment_Society.html#MO51.5">EHS Workplace Practices </a>[Room 351 CF]
<br />[This is part of a whole track on EHS that begins at 10:30 am with a session on Nano Toxicology Studies]<br />
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tuesday</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">10:30 am</span> GoodNanoGuide Sneak Preview [Room 361 CF]: A hands-on demo of our newest project. Please bring your wireless-enabled laptop to take the GoodNanoGuide for a spin.
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<br />I hope to see you there!
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mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Janelia Farm, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute located outside Washington, DC, was the picturesque setting of HHMI’s annual Environmental Health & Safety Directors Conference. The theme this year: Nanotechnology and the New Economy—Modern Challenges in ES&H Management. In the audience were about 50 high-level EHS managers at universities that are part of the HHMI network. The level of prior knowledge about nanotechnology was mixed. As we learned, some were very knowledgeable, others knew in which labs nanotech research was being pursued at their institutions, and a few had little more than passing knowledge.</p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">The science keynote address was given by Drew Endy, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. A very interesting and provocative speaker (though in an unassuming way), Endy gave a series of slides he calls “postcards” outlining the ways in which synthetic biology is being developed. His presentation style consisted of speaking to the audience using slides with minimal content, except when needed to illustrate a technical point. (I liked this approach better than the “stuff lots of content onto your slides so people would not even have had to be there to get the gist. Which usually doesn’t work.) So quotable was he that my <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23HHMIEHS">Twitterstream</a> on this (#HHMIEHS) does a better job capturing the highlights than I can do here. Suffice it to say that Endy effectively presented a lot of the cutting edge developments in synbio, if he fell a tad short on offering advice to EHS managers about how to handle safety issues in their institutions. The closest he came was an illustration of a student’s home-brew synbio lab, constructed in her bedroom closet, in which her coat was clearly visible among the instruments. I had the same reaction to his talk that I had to the synbio thread at last summer’s GRC on Science and Technology in Society: Wow.</p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">My session was entitled, “Nanotechnology & Safety Management—A New Relationship”. Joining me were Jo Anne Shatkin, PhD, Managing Director of CLF Ventures and Charles Geraci, PhD, CIH, Coordinator of the Nanotechnology Program at the US National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH). Given the content of our prepared remarks the three of us decided we had been placed in the agenda in the wrong order and staged a soft coup the morning of the meeting, rearranging ourselves in a more sensible order. Questions were held until the end of our talks.</p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Thus it was that Jo Anne started off the session with a nice overview of nanotechnology and the attendant issues that complicate an assessment of its health and safety impacts. She outlined her approach to risk assessment of nanomaterials, presented in more detail in her new book, “<a href="http://tinyurl.com/defz36">Nanotechnology: health and environmental risks</a>.” </p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Chuck Geraci was up next, giving a thorough account of NIOSH’s many activities in nanotechnology. He spent some time describing a simple framework for identifying occupational safety issues, summarizing some of NIOSH’s recent toxicological research, including recent work presented at the SOT meeting showing long-straight multi-walled carbon nanotubes penetrating the pleural lining (AKA “The Image”). NIOSH commentary on this work can be found at the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/blog/nsb031909_mwcnt.html">NIOSH blog</a>. He ended by plugging the updated guidance document along with a recent document on medical surveillance programs, both available at the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/">NIOSH nanotechnology page</a>.</p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Faced with a room full of EHS Directors gathered to hear the latest about nanotechnology, what else could I do but talk at some length about the GoodNanoGuide? I gave my pitch, walked through a brief live demo of the site and invited them to participate.</p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">For once, the schedule was constructed to allow for a generous Q&A session, even considering that collectively we went over our allotted speaking time. (In too many of these meetings, “panel” equates to “speakers talking too long leaving audience little to no time for questions.” The <a href="http://iconnanoblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/tort-lawyers-are-coming.html">ABA CLE</a> was like this.) And this audience availed itself of every minute. Among the discussion threads we pursued were </p> <ul><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=""><span style=";font-size:7;" ></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;">The state of knowledge of occupational practices as they relate to medical applications of nanotechnology [a natural for this audience]</span></li><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-size:85%;" ><span style=""> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;">Whether control banding should be applied to nanomaterials and which form might be best</span></li><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-size:85%;" ><span style=""> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;">How to get wayward academics to understand and enforce good occupational practices in their labs [lots of grumbling about the tyranny of the academic overlords (PhD faculty) who fail to appreciate the humble servants that are only trying to help them (EHS managers).]</span></li><li><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style=";font-size:85%;" ><span style=""> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;">Whether biosafety protocols should be in place for labs working with nanomaterials. [Setting up a Level 1-4 type of containment system similar to that used by labs working with known or potential pathogens.]</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">This last question caught the three of us somewhat flat-footed. It is not a concept I have heard discussed in many other forums on nano-safety. I suppose EHS managers who deal with medical research think more about biosafety than many others in the nanotechnology community who have more of a chemical safety mindset. The question is whether the biosafety approach can be justified, and for which types of nano research. One obvious difference between current nanomaterials and, say, the Ebola virus, is that today’s nanomaterials are still largely the Phase 1 “passive” materials presented in Mike Roco’s much disseminated scheme. <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></span>Until we progress to the later stages of nanotechnology we should not be overly concerned with nanoparticles multiplying.</p> <p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Response to our session was very positive and I expect to hear from many of these people again as we all grapple with the occupational issues surrounding academic nanotechnology research. Plus, Janelia Farm is a very cool place to visit. </p> Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-11867554734827164262009-04-14T14:16:00.000-07:002009-04-14T14:34:57.865-07:00The tort lawyers are coming<span style="font-family: courier new;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ></span>I spent a lovely weekend in Phoenix recently, courtesy of the American Bar Association's 18th Annual Spring Continuing Legal Education meeting. The theme of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section's CLE this year was It's a Small World After All: From nanotechnology to global warming--A quantum leap from buckyballs to carbon footprints. 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Ruddy, PhD of <a href="http://www.elan.com/EDT/">Elan Drug Technologies</a>, George Kimbrell, staff attorney of the<a href="http://www.icta.org/"> International Center for Technology Assessment</a>, and Fionna Mowat, PhD of <a href="http://www.exponent.com">Exponent</a>. Panel organizer Judi Abbott Curry of <a href="http://www.harrisbeach.com">Harris Beach, LLC</a>, opened with some brief remarks about nanotechnology and its potential importance to the tort law community.<br /><br />Dr. Ruddy gave his perspective on the broad diversity of nano-based medicines currently on the market or under development, arguing against a “one-size-fits-all” approach to regulation. Elan has launched four nanotechnology based drug products in the US since 2001. He asserted that FDA’s regulatory review process for new drug products appears adequate for nanotechnology-based drug products such as liposomes, nano emulsions and engineered drug nanoparticles but may need to be evaluated periodically as more complex drug products emerge. <br /><br />George Kimbrell struck a strongly precautionary tone, which should come as no surprise to people familiar with <a href="http://www.icta.org/nanotech/index.cfm">CTA’s work in nanotechnology</a>. [They have filed a number of petitions to FDA and EPA urging them to interpret their regulatory authority more broadly.] He highlighted nanosilver and nanoscale sunscreen ingredients as products of particular concern and called for more federal funding for environmental, health and safety (EHS) research, faster response by federal agencies charged with regulatory oversight, and a stronger regulatory framework that protects workers, the general public and the environment from the impacts of nanomaterials throughout their lifecycle. <br /><br />Fionna Mowat, an expert in exposure assessment, presented a case study comparing carbon nanotubes and asbestos. Tort lawyers in particular understand the implications of a material showing asbestos-like behaviors. She reviewed three recent papers comparing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) to asbestos, two of which were reviewed in an <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/resources.cfm?doc_id=12299">ICON backgrounder</a> published last year.The third paper, published this year, investigated the effect of injecting MWCNTs intrascrotally into rats. After identifying similarities and differences between MWCNTs and asbestos fibers she argued for more research and a more nuanced understanding of the potential exposures to MWCNTs throughout the lifecycle. <br /><br /> I spoke last, focusing my remarks on the information needs assessment workshops ICON has convened over the last two years. I previewed some of the conclusions and recommendations of our most recent workshop on <a href="http://cohesion.rice.edu/centersandinst/icon/events.cfm?doc_id=12964">Eco-Responsible Design and Disposal of Engineered Nanomaterials</a>, held in Houston in March 2009. One of the working groups focused their attention on regulatory issues for nanomaterial disposal raising questions about whether nanomaterials can leak out of landfill liners, calling for more research into potential impacts of antimicrobial nanoparticles on waste treatment plants, and policies for dealing with nanomaterials in construction and demolition materials, which are often recycled. More information about the workshop’s conclusions and recommendations is forthcoming when the full report is published. Meanwhile, for those who can't wait another moment, Chemical & Engineering News, who embedded a reporter in the two-day workshop, <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/87/8715gov2.html">published a summary</a> of views presented and conclusions drawn. <br /><br />Despite the lower-than-normal level of attendance (blamed on the economy) the question and answer period was lively and it was clear that this was many people’s first serious introduction to the subject of nanotechnology. It is no exaggeration to say that our panel, with its diversity of viewpoints was an eye-opener for attorneys who represent plaintiffs and defendants alike. Afterwards, Ms. Curry confirmed that the tort community is behind the knowledge curve on nanotechnology and that our session accomplished her goal of beginning to inform them about this emerging topic.<p style="font-family: courier new;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></p>Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-66716284666985073432009-04-09T10:04:00.000-07:002009-04-09T10:25:47.198-07:00Early buzz for AIHce<a href="http://www.aiha.org/aihce09/default.htm">The American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce)</a> will be held this year between May 30–June 4 in Toronto, CA. The theme of Discoveries without Borders dovetails nicely with the two sessions being offered on sustainability and nanotechnology. (I will be presenting on global challanges to nano-EHS on Wednesday, June 4.) This article, <a href="http://www.safetyonline.com/article.mvc/AIHce-A-Value-In-Any-Economy-0001?VNETCOOKIE=NO">AIHce: A Value in Economy</a>, is obviously aimed at generating healthy attendance at what is no doubt a key revenue generator for the AIHA. However, the title got me thinking about the role of occupational safety in tough economic times. As companies trim every possible ounce of fat from their budgets, they have an obligation not to skimp on workplace safety for their employees and responsible safeguards for the environment. Doing this in a nanotechnology-related enterprise can be challenging, not because there is little will, but because good guidance can be difficult to find and interpret. That makes it even more important for those with knowledge to distribute it as broadly as possible. A good place to start for those in North America (AIHA's key constituency) is with the nanotechnology pages at <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/">NIOSH</a> and <a href="http://www.irsst.qc.ca/en/_publicationirsst_100210.html">IRSST</a>. We hope that the GoodNanoGuide will serve as a resource for companies as well when it goes public this summer.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-51665013602298495222009-04-08T13:19:00.000-07:002009-04-08T13:52:08.859-07:00Databases, databases, databasesThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) <a href="http://www.oecd.org/document/26/0,3343,en_2649_37015404_42464730_1_1_1_1,00.html">announced</a> that it has published a database of research projects related to the safety of manufactured nanomaterials. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because this database was created by and used to reside at the website of the <a href="http://www.nanotechproject.org">Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies</a> at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Back in the day, when there was only a small number of databases relating to nanotech safety issues, we had a grand vision of creating a central resource for sifting through the growing information about nano-EHS. ICON's first step in that direction was to allow someone visiting our bibliographic <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/virtualjournal.cfm">database of nano-EHS papers</a> to search the NIOSH Nanoparticle Information Library (NIL) and the PEN research database from our site. <br /><br />The complementarity among these independent efforts can be illustrated with a hypothetical example. Imagine you are a researcher looking for information on quantum dot toxicity. From one site you could (a) find the research already published on the subject (ICON), (b) discover information about the particles from manufacturers or other users of the materials (NIL) and (c) get a sense for what's coming in the future by perusing active government-funded quantum dot research projects (PEN). And, what's more, you could conduct such a search no matter which database you landed in because each would offer the ability to search the others.<br /><br />For a time, it started to look like this would work. First ICON and NIL offered this triple-search ability at each other's site. (PEN reciprocity was put on hold when OECD agreed to take over and maintain the research database.) Then the NIOSH NIL went offline over concerns about computer security. The PEN database is now the OECD database and it now points to ICON but the ICON database doesn't point to it yet. Oh, yeah, and there are now lots more niche databases online or (mostly) under development.<br /><br />But stay tuned for future developments. We will change our <a href="http://icon.rice.edu/advancedsearch.cfm">Advanced Search</a> function to allow searching within the OECD database as soon as our Web Services gets to it. And the NIOSH NIL may soon rise again, though outside of NIOSH's firewall. As for integration of all the other databases popping up out there, I'm open to exploring this. Funding agencies and other benefactors: Call me.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-81078893410662884932009-04-06T09:44:00.001-07:002009-04-08T15:43:35.930-07:00NanoEHS track at NSTIThe technical program for the big NSTI meeting is now up. I heard this morning that pre-registration is tracking last year's numbers, which bodes well for attendance. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 4000 attendees is expected.<br /><br />I am organizing a <a href="http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2009/symposia/Environment_Society.html">session on workplace practices</a> with all-stars from NIOSH, U Mass Lowell, IRSST and UC Berkeley on Monday, May 4. I'm also scheming to do another GoodNanoGuide training session, co-sponsoring a reception at the Rice booth and scoping out having an open ICON steering committee meeting. Stay tuned for more. Meanwhile if you're coming to Houston and want to connect let me know.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-39548671108060187512009-04-06T08:46:00.000-07:002009-04-08T15:35:14.918-07:00GoodNanoGuide domain now activeThe url http://www.goodnanoguide.org has now been registered. Until we launch publicly unregistered people can view the sponsors page (natch) and <a href="http://vps15.etazo.net/tiki-index.php?page=How%20to%20Become%20a%20Provider">request provider status</a>. Providers should have some relevant expertise to offer which is why we're asking just a few questions about credentials. No anonymous contributions are allowed at this time.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1113208283643942534.post-81461199939033917402009-04-02T08:43:00.000-07:002009-04-02T09:34:43.499-07:00One Giant Nano FamilyThanks to Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery Channel.com for <a href="http://blogs.discovery.com/news_sustainable/2009/04/good_nano_guide.html">blogging today about </a><a href="http://blogs.discovery.com/news_sustainable/2009/04/good_nano_guide.html">ICON's latest project</a> as part of Discovery Tech's Wide Angle on nanotechnology. Our phone conversation yesterday took an extremely wide angle, covering everything from <a href="http://cben.rice.edu/ShowInterior.aspx?id=154">nanoshells for cancer therapy</a>, <a href="http://cben.rice.edu/ShowInterior.aspx?id=162">nanorust for arsenic remediation</a>, <a href="http://cben.rice.edu/ShowInterior.aspx?id=380">bimetallic nanoparticles for remediation of chlorinated solvents</a>, and the general topic of nano and environmental impacts. Of all the great work within CBEN that I bragged about, she chose to focus this piece on the GoodNanoGuide. We continue to work hard at growing a community of contributors as we work out the technical aspects of using the robust, yet not-newbie-friendly Tiki-Wiki platform.Kristen Kulinowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01927162163118131209noreply@blogger.com0