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Presentation: New Third-Party Funded Projects 2015
Within the scope of its main areas of research, the BfR acquired third-party funding
for various new projects in 2015. Here is a selection:
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In the main area Nanotechnology, the Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF) is financing the research project “Nanostructured materials –
Grouping regarding worker, consumer and environment safety and risk mitigation
(nanoGRAVUR)”, which aims to observe specific developments of grouping
approaches to the important aspects of exposure and hazard potential for
humans and the environment and to explore joint aspects for the testing and
assessment of nanomaterials.
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In the field of the Risk Assessment of Nanotechnologies, the project “Development
and implementation of Grouping and Safe-by-Design approaches within regulatory
frameworks (NANoREG II)” was procured which picks up on the process from the
EU NANoREG project and dedicates itself to the build-up of a regulatory system
which is flexible enough to integrate new objects and requirements. This is to be
achieved through the development and introduction of the Safe-by-Design (SbD)
principle.
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In the main research area on the Safety of National and International Supply
Chains, the EU is funding the project “Ensuring the Integrity of the European Food
Chain (Food Integrity)”. The goal of the EU consortium is to ensure the safety,
authenticity and quality of food and to protect the food chain from adulteration.
To achieve this, the partners from universities, research institutions, industrial
corporations and authorities are collaborating on the harmonisation and standardi-
sation of processes.
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The project in the main area of Detecting Contaminants and Assessing Chemical
Risks “European Test and Risk Assessment Strategies for Mixtures (EuroMix)”
is funded within the scope of the EU research programme Horizon 2020. An
experimental, verified and graduated strategy for the risk assessment of mixtures
of various chemicals is to be developed here.
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In the main research area on the Harmonisation and Standardisation of Exposure
Estimations, the European Commission is funding the project “Study on hazardous
detergents mixtures contained in soluble packaging for single use (LiquiTabs)”,
in which water-soluble packaging of LiquiTabs are being examined for health-
damaging substance mixtures.
About the BfR
The BfR has a modern experimental infrastructure in the
fields of chemical analysis, microbial diagnostics, toxi-
cology and food technology. An agricultural business
with livestock farming and aquaculture, as well as a facil-
ity for conducting experimental work on animals, enable
the institute to perform basic research and assessment
tasks. In addition to this, the BfR has modern molecu-
lar and cellular biology laboratories, as well as protein
biochemistry laboratories for the development of alter-
native and replacement methods to animal experiments.
In the laboratory for large and small animals, work can
be done up to safety level S2/L2, while microbiological
tasks are possible up to stage L3. This means that the
BfR is able to conduct cross-departmental and interdis-
ciplinary examinations and assessments along the en-
tire supply and product chain. In its activities, the BfR ori-
entates itself on the relevant ISO norms and recognised
standards for quality management. In its research, the
BfR works on the basis of the recommendations of the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in line with the prin-
ciples of Good Scientific Practice.