By Porter Wright on Recently, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Office of Pharmaceutical Science issued the above entitled addition to CDER’s Manual of Policies and Procedures(MAPP). This produced some uproar in the nanotech community by some who interpreted a single line as indicating that the FDA was about to start redefining nanomaterials. The purpose of this new MAPP … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on The Center for the Study of Law, Science & Technology, part of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, Monash University Law School, and the Institute of Environmental and Energy Law jointly created the Nanotech Regulatory Document Archive in 2009. The archive is a free and easily searchable database of, as the name implies, … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) just released its newest project/tool, the Nano-EHS Database Analysis Tool. To quote ICON, "This web tool allows you to obtain a quick and thorough synopsis of our Environment, Health and Safety Database using two types of analysis. The first is a Simple Distribution Analysis (pie chart) which compares categories within a … Continue Reading