Nanomaterials and nano-enabled products present opportunities for innovation alongside specific safety and sustainability challenges, particularly where limited data are available early in the development process. Integrating safety and sustainability considerations throughout the innovation life cycle requires appropriate frameworks, tools and decision support systems to help innovators, risk assessors and regulators navigate these complexities.
What tools, integrative systems and platforms can support the implementation of safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) for nanomaterials and nano-enabled products? How can safety and sustainability considerations be integrated across design, manufacturing, use and end-of-life stages? And how can existing tool inventories assist innovators in selecting appropriate methods, especially when data are limited?
This webinar introduced the OECD report on safe and sustainable by design tools, integrative systems and platforms for nanomaterials and nano-enabled products. The report reviews and compiles an inventory of SSbD tools, integrative systems and platforms that can support consideration of functionality, safety and sustainability throughout the innovation process. Building on the OECD Safe(r) and Sustainable Innovation Approach (SSIA), it identifies how different tools address information needs and highlights their potential uses and limitations in practical settings.
The webinar presented an overview of the key findings of the report and perspectives on how SSbD tools and systems can be applied in practice to support decision making, innovation and regulatory preparedness for nanomaterials and nano-enabled products.
