The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has released a one-pager entitled “NIOSH Engineering Controls Program” which summarizes the recent activities of the program and reviews the program priorities regarding silica exposure in U.S. highway production.
Read MoreThe Department of Energy (DOE) awarded AVAPCO (a company of American Process, Inc.), BYOGY Renewables, and Petron Scientech $3.7 million dollars this month to fund phase one of the ABBA project which will “co-produce full replacement renewable jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and Bioplus® nanocellulose from woody biomass”.
Read MoreThe Toolbox provides useful tools such as test methods, datasets, models, guidance documents, decision trees, etc., which are available to regulators and others in context of REACH.
Read MoreLast month, Walmart became the first retailer in the U.S. to set a deadline for the reduction of chemicals of concern in consumables, promising to reduce them by 10% by the year 2022.
Read MoreOn October 9th, 2017, The European Commission (EC) released a Draft Regulation that would amend the E.U.’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction) Regulation to address nanoforms.
Read MoreThirty-three companies have come together, along with VTT Technical Research of Finland, to develop sustainable forest products which could be used as an alternative to petroleum based materials such as plastics.
Read MoreScientists studying fish and shellfish sold for human consumption in Indonesian and American fish markets found the presence of man-made debris.
Read MoreYesterday was National Nano Technology Day 2017. The Vireo Advisors team celebrated in different ways!
Read MoreRecent research conducted by Fu and colleagues (2017) has shown increased hydration and improvements of flexural strength of cement pastes when cellulose nanocrystals are included as an additive.
Read MoreAdvances in material science, including nanotechnologies, are offering enhanced food packaging solutions.
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