BSI British Standards Publishes Nanotech Guidance for U.K. Industry
February 8, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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BSI British Standards published nine documents featuring nanotechnology terminology and guidance for the U.K. industry that the company said will support worker, public and environmental safety and underpin commercialization and procurement.
According to BSI, the worldwide market for nanotechnology-enabled products is expected to exceed $1 trillion a year by 2015, and nanotechnologies are already used in medicine, green technology and in more than 500 consumer products such as laptops, sunscreen, tennis rackets and socks.
To support and enable safe application of this technology, BSI British Standards created common definitions for nano-related products and guidance on labelling, safe handling and materials specification.
The nine nanotechnology documents are as follows:
- BSI Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 131, Terminology for medical, health and personal care applications of nanotechnologies.
- BSI PAS 132, Terminology for the bio-nano interface.
- BSI PAS 133, Terminology for nanoscale measurement and instrumentation.
- BSI PAS 134, Terminology for carbon nanostructures.
- BSI PAS 135, Terminology for nanofabrication.
- BSI PAS 136, Terminology for nanomaterials.
- BSI Published Document (PD) 6699-1, Nanotechnologies - Part 1: Good practice guide for specifying manufactured nanomaterials.
- BSI PD 6699-2, Nanotechnologies - Part 2: Guide to safe handling and disposal of manufactured nanomaterials.
- BSI PAS 130, Guidance on the labelling of manufactured nanoparticles and products containing manufactured nanoparticles.
"Standardization has a key part to play in all innovative technologies, and nanotechnology is no exception," said Mike Low, director of BSI British Standards. "The industry's knowledge of nanomaterials is still at a relatively early stage, and it is therefore crucial that it has best practice guidance available to it. BSI has brought together the best available expertise to create these nine nanotechnology documents," he said.
Peter Hatto, chair of the U.K. national committee on nanotechnologies, said, "These nine new documents continue the U.K.'s innovative work to develop standards for this important new field, which started with the publication of [BSI] PAS 71 - Vocabulary for nanoparticles. The publications mark the beginning of an exciting work programme for 2008 and beyond."
To download the publications, go to http://www.bsigroup.com/nano.
Source: BSI Group.