Final Opinion on Nanosilver: safety, health and environmental effects and role in antimicrobial resistance

02 July 2014

On 16 June the European Commission and its non-food Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, SCENIHR, published the final opinion on "Nanosilver: safety, health and environmental effects and role in antimicrobial resistance".
SCENIHR concludes that the widespread (and increasing) use of silver containing products implicates that both consumers and the environment are exposed to new sources of silver. Human exposure is direct (food, hand-to-mouth contact, skin) and may be lifelong; while in the environment silver nanoparticles may be a particularly effective delivery system for silver to organisms in soil, water and sediment (European Commission, 16 June 2014).
Click here for the news article of the European Commission.
Click here to download the Final Opinion (616 kB).

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