By Andrew D. Maynard, David Y.H. Pui

Nanotechnology is speedily invading many points of recent society - from technology, study and engineering to business and advertisement functions and, unavoidably, to guy and his surroundings. one of many greatest demanding situations, accordingly, is dealing with environmental, overall healthiness and safeguard hazards of nanomaterials. but, the data essential to check their longterm results is scarce. Systematic study into what very likely makes engineered nanomaterials dangerous, how this interprets into threat, and the way those will be controlled should be very important and contains interdisciplinary collaboration.
The first overseas Symposium on Nanotechnology and Occupational future health, in 2004, introduced jointly hygienists, brands, toxicologists, fabrics scientists, regulators and researchers. It pointed find out how to what should be performed. the second one overseas Symposium, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota, verified the ability and strength the place there's a will: with approximately 3 times as many attendants, and with contributions from lecturers, undefined, policymakers, non-government companies or even attorneys, this moment symposum verified that, whereas there's overseas difficulty over the right way to be sure secure nanotech-workplaces, there's additionally growth being made in constructing the mandatory knowledge.
This quantity, a reprint from a unique factor of the magazine of Nanoparticle examine, typically attracts from paintings provided on the 2005 symposium, various yet united by means of the necessity for a holistic view of nanotechnology and risk.

Audience:
Libraries, laboratories, scientists and researchers, policymakers, foreign institutions and tasks concerned with nanotechnology.