The Graphene REACH Registration Consortium, which includes companies such as The Sixth Element Material Technology and Applied Graphene Materials, have registered graphene (CAS 1034343-98-0) and graphene oxide through the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), allowing for sales up to 10 tons per annum in the European Market.

The top court in the European Union recently ruled that gene editing techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 are subject to the EU GMO Directive, bringing researchers extensive obligations that will likely slow research in innovative crop breeding.

The Society for Risk Analysis is a multidisciplinary, international society that brings together experts for all aspects of risk analysis. Within that society, the Emerging Nanomaterials Specialty Group (ENMSG) brought focus to the risk analysis of emerging nanoscale materials.

Vireo Advisors is pleased to offer some of the latest health safety and environmental (HSE) resources for nanomaterials on the TAPPI Nano HSE website.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released its Plant and Animal Biotechnology Innovation Action Plan, which provides an overview of FDA’s efforts to develop a comprehensive policy framework for the oversight of animal biotechnology products, including food and drug products derived from intentionally genetically altered animals and plants.