The JRC contributed to the development of a low cost and highly efficient screening strategy to implement the European Commission's Recommendation for a definition of nanomaterials.
A variety of EU regulations (Cosmetic Products, Novel Foods, Biocidal Products and the proposal for Medical Devices) require information on nanomaterials and an assessment of their safety. Essentially, according to the Commission's recommendation, a nanomaterial is a material containing particles and where more than half of the particles have at least one external dimension in the size range 1 nm – 100 nm.
Further details: Nanomaterials or non- nanomaterials