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.

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.

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.

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

A recent study published in ACS Nano suggests that fat digestion and absorption can be reduced when nanocellulose fibers are added to food.