Building blocks for a precautionary approach to the use of nanomaterials : positions taken by trade unions and environmental NGOs in the European nanotechnologies debate

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<abstract displayLabel="Summary">As partners in the European capacity-building project NanoCap, trade unions and environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have established positions on the development of nanotechnologies. Key in their positioning is their view that the use of nanomaterials with currently unknown occupational and environmental hazards must have consequences for the risk management and use of nanoproducts.They have made proposals for responsible manufacturing and for applying the precautionary principle to the use of nanoproducts and they urgently call for the acceptance and the operationalization of a precautionary approach by the industry and governments. The trade unions and NGOs are calling for transparency and openness regarding processes and products that contain nanomaterials and have proposed specific tools for nanomaterial use that put the precautionary principle into practice, including the principles no data, no exposure and no data , no emission. The proposed tools also include compulsory reporting of the type and content of nanoparticles applied in products, a register of workers possibly exposed to nanoparticles, and the use of nano reference values as guides to assess workplace exposure to nanoparticles </abstract>
<note type="statement of responsibility">Pieter van Broekhuizen, Lucas Reijnders</note>
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<text>03/10/2011 Tomo 31 Número 10  - 2011 </text>
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