The goal of this survey is to gather stakeholder feedback on a set of draft recommendations developed within the EU-funded MACRAMÉ project. These recommendations aim to support the development of test and assessment strategies that are applicable for advanced materials, including products that contain them. These advanced materials go beyond conventional nanomaterials in complexity and functionality, which may bring additional challenges in their risk assessment. In the survey we seek your feedback on relevance, potential challenges, limitations, and suggestions for improvement of the MACRAMÉ recommendations. This will help us refine and further develop the recommendations. Your input will thus support the efforts to align testing strategies with regulatory needs and contribute to more targeted and applicable test method development.
The MACRAMÉ Informed Recommendations reflect the scientific and technical knowledge gained during the development of testing methodologies for carbon-based advanced materials, as well as expert input from regulatory and policy consultations. They aim to address critical gaps in the standardisation of testing and risk assessment for advanced materials.
In the survey short descriptions of the individual recommendations are given. The full set of recommendations, each with relevant background information can be found here: https://macrame-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/MACRAME-File-Exchange/wp5-file-exchange/Informed%20Recommendations/Placeholder%20-%20MACRAM%C3%89%20Draft%20Informed%20Recommendations.pdf
The MACRAMÉ project (https://macrame-project.eu/) aims to support the safe and sustainable use of advanced materials by developing, demonstrating, and standardising novel test methods applicable to both these advanced materials and products that contain them. MACRAMÉ focuses on three representative material families: graphene-related materials, carbon nanofibres such as carbon nanotubes, and polylactic-co-glycolic acid particles.
