What Are the Warning Signs That We Should Be Looking For?

Hansen, Steffen Foss; Maynard, Andrew; Baun, Anders; Tickner, Joel; Bowman, Diana M.

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“…Environmental impacts are perhaps the greatest risks arising from emerging technologies, with more potential for uncontained use and certainly more and possibly Bnew^types of waste [21,22,25]. We argue, therefore, that environmental regulators will become the front line in responding to new technologies in that regard.…”

Section: Environmental Lifecycle Issuesmentioning

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Regulating Emerging and Future Technologies in the Present

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Scientific knowledge and technological expertise continue to evolve rapidly. Such innovation gives rise to new benefits as well as risks, at an everincreasing pace. Within this context, regulatory regimes must function in order to address policymakers' objectives. Innovation, though, can challenge the functioning and effectiveness of regulatory regimes. Questions over fit, effectiveness, and capacity of these regimes to ensure the safe entry of such technologies, and their products, onto the market will be asked in parallel to their development. With this in mind, this article examines the strengths and weaknesses of current regulatory frameworks, including those designed for biotechnology, cosmetics, novel organisms, and foods, in order to inform and help shape Australia's regulatory landscape around innovation. By focusing on Australia, the article illustrates the need to assess future changes to regulatory frameworks using a careful balancing of key factors. These include, for example, horizon scanning and monitoring, availability of appropriate data, existing health, safety, environmental, ethical, and social risks and impacts, and regulatory capacity. The article argues that rather than using one of these factors in isolation, a careful assessment of where each factor stands can lead regulators to an approach that properly manages the potential risks of emerging technologies.

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Section: Environmental Lifecycle Issuesmentioning

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“…The need to rethink the appropriateness of the regulatory frameworks has been identified also in other cases before the development of nanotechnologies, 8 but they serve as a case in point to further highlight the shortcoming of current regulatory frameworks and the need to establish (new) regulatory measures to deal with hitherto unknown materials that have new properties and unknown risks (Hansen et al 2014;Marchant et al 2011;Jansen et al 2011). …”

Section: Environmental Protection In 2008 (Rcep 2009) and The Centermentioning

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“…CNTs) have with other ultrafine particles and asbestos fibres, have led to many concerns about the potential risks of nanomaterials (RS-RAE, 2004;Poland et al 2008;Hansen et al 2013Hansen et al & 2014.…”

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“…There is a growing consensus within the scientific community that the existing regulatory frameworks may be outdated, inappropriate or may need significant updates to be able to capture the safe production or use of some nanomaterials, and identify the potential hazards that these materials pose to human health and environment (SCENIHR, 2006;Groves et al 2008;Hansen et al 2014). The need to rethink the appropriateness of the regulatory frameworks has been identified also in other cases before the development of nanotechnologies, 8 but they serve as a case in point to further highlight the shortcoming of current regulatory frameworks and the need to establish (new) regulatory measures to deal with hitherto unknown materials that have new properties and unknown risks (Hansen et al 2014;Marchant et al 2011;Jansen et al 2011).…”

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“…OECD). These deliverables can be deployed by the government to inform their decision making (Bowman, 2014), but also by industry to inform risk management activities and produce and/or market safe nano-enabled products (Hansen et al 2014;Bowman, 2014). Furthermore, TGAs are often expected to foster cooperation amongst a wide range of actors across borders, share regulatory and scientific expertise, and coordinate their approaches for addressing technological and regulatory uncertainties and challenges (Abott et al 2010(Abott et al & 2012.…”

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What Are the Warning Signs That We Should Be Looking For?

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