Nanotechnology and Manufactured Nanomaterials

UNITAR/OECD/IOMC Awareness-Raising Workshop for
Developing and Transition Countries on Nanotechnology/
Manufactured Nanomaterials Asia Pacific Region

Beijing, China

27 November 2009

This workshop, which was the first in a series, included participants from a wide variety of governments and other stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific Region, as well as representatives of international organizations.

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Meeting Documents

Agenda  Download

Participants list  Download

The Science

• Introduction to the issue of Nano and EHS, Reiner Arndt, UNITAR  Download
• Potential benefits of nanomaterials – the products from nanotechnologies, and knowledge sharing on nano, Peter Kearns, OECD  Download
• Potential human health and environmental risks from the production and use manufactured nanomaterials and their applications (waste, preparedness, prevention/control), Mar Gonzalez, OECD  Download
• Industry perspective, BIAC  Download
• NGO perspective, David Azoulay, ENV NGO  Download

Human, Worker and Environmental Health and Management of Risks

• Measures to control human exposure and environmental releases at the workplace, Vladimir Murashov, US NIOSH/ WPMN  Download
• Governance – How This Issue is Co-ordinated Globally: current international activities to address risk and benefits of Nanomaterials, Mar Gonzalez, OECD  Download (background documents: OECD Activities in Human Health and Environmental Safety and Activities on Nanotechnologies in Intergovernmental and Other International Organisations)

Regional Needs

• Experience of countries in the Asia-Pacific UN region with benefits and risks from Nanomaterials:
  • China, Chunying Chen  presentation 1, presentation 2
  • Japan, Takeshi Sekiya  Download
  • Japan, Shuji Tamura  Download
  • Republic of Korea, Koh Jong-Hee  Download
  • Thailand, Sirasak Teparkum  Download
  • Kyrgyzstan, Saadat Sulaimankulova  Download

Next Steps

• National Chemicals Management Profiles: presentation of a draft outline for a National Profile Chapter on Nano, Craig Boljkovac, UNITAR  Download
• Presentation on general reporting scheme Craig Boljkovac, UNITAR  Download