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NanoREG II - Development and Implementation of Grouping and Safe-by-Design approaches within regulatory frameworks

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One of the greatest challenges facing regulators in the ever changing landscape of novel nano-materials is how to design and implement a regulatory process which is robust enough to deal with a rapidly diversifying system of manufactured nanomaterials (MNM) over time. The challenge is to build a regulatory system which is flexible enough to be able to deal with new targets and requirements in the future, and this can be helped by the development and introduction of Safe by Design (SbD) principles. The NANoREG II project, built around the challenge of coupling SbD to the regulatory process, will demonstrate and establish new principles and ideas based on data from value chain implementation studies to establish SbD as a fundamental pillar in the validation of a novel MNM. Grouping concepts that will be developed by NanoREG II can be regarded as a major innovation, and in the form of guidance documents will support industries and regulatory agencies as well as supporting commercial launch of new NM.