The latest news about safe, sustainable and bio-based materials and products

New NAFTA Agreement Promotes Risk-Based Approach for Chemical Regulations and Cosmetics

The United States, Canada, and Mexico reached an agreement this month on an updated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Guidance, Leadership, Policy, Regulation, Risk AnalysisJames EdeOctober 19, 2018NAFTA, USMCA, revised trade pact includes an annex for chemical substances, Vireo Advisors, chemical risk assessments, safety data sheets, scientific criteria and data sharing, risk-based approach to regulating cosmetic product safetyComment

2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Researchers Using Evolutionary Techniques

Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter are the 2018 Nobel Prize recipients for chemistry for their work “harnessing the power of evolution” to create important biological molecules including antibodies, biofuels, and drugs.

InnovationJames EdeOctober 18, 20182018 Nobel Prize, Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter, harnessing the power of evolution, biological molecules, professor of chemical engineering from California Institute of Technology, Smith of the University of Missouri, Winter of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, fully functional antibodies, enzyme, mutating and screening microbes, fighting cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and other autoimmune disorders, Vireo AdvisorsComment

Vireo Expands our Team: Welcome Shaun Clancy and Cassidy Pomeroy-Carter!

Vireo is pleased to announce our team expansion to include Dr. Shaun Clancy, formerly of Evonik Corporation in New Jersey, and Cassidy Pomeroy-Carter, formerly a Fellow with the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, DC.

LeadershipJames EdeOctober 16, 2018Vireo Advisors, Jo Anne Shatkin, Shaun Clancy, Cassidy Pomeroy-Carter, Fellow with the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, DC, formerly of Evonik Corporation in New Jersey, Vireo Expands our Team: Welcome Shaun Clancy and Cassidy Pomeroy-Carter!, nano-safety, ANSI-NSP, US American National Standards Institute Nanotechnology Standards PanelComment

Vireo Participates in National Graphene Association Inaugural Conference on EHS Panel

Jo Anne Shatkin is an NGA advisory board member and will be a panelist on the NGA’s first environmental health and safety panel discussion.

Environment, NanoEHS News, EventsJames EdeOctober 15, 2018Vireo Advisors, Jo Anne Shatkin, National Graphene Association Inaugural Conference on EHS Panel, Austin Texas, EHS, health and safety panelComment

US National Nanotechnology Initiative holds Second Quantitative Estimate of Exposure to Nanomaterials Conference (QEEN II) Oct 9-10

Jo Anne Shatkin, as well as new team members Dr. Shaun Clancy, and Cassidy Pomeroy-Carter were part of the planning and coordination of the conference, organizing panel discussions on exposure to nanomaterials in food and food contact items, and stakeholder perspectives, respectively.

Events, Nanomaterials, Risk AnalysisJames EdeOctober 12, 2018QEEN II, Vireo Advisors, Ilahaben Patel, nanomaterials, Shaun Clancy, Cassidy Pomeroy-Carter, Washington, cellulose nanomaterials in biological matrices, Nano Life Cycle Risk Assessment, NIST, American UniversityComment

Flushed Contacts found in Surface Water

A recent survey of randomly selected users of disposable contact lenses found that more than 20% of people flush their contact lenses down the toilet or washed them down the sink instead of placing them in the garbage.

Environment, GuidanceJames EdeOctober 1, 2018Flushed Contacts found in Surface Water, combination of poly(methylmethacrylate), silicones and fluoropolymers, disposable contact lenses, waste-water treatment plants, plastic pollution in waterways, Vireo AdvisorsComment

NanoAOP Workshop coordinated by Vireo Advisors held at NanoTox 2018- 9th International Conference on Nanotoxicology

Vireo Advisors coordinated an expert workshop during Nanotox 2018 entitled, “Advancing Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) Development for Nanomaterial Risk Assessment and Categorization”.