Standards will underpin the development and commercialization of nanotechnology, and aid efforts to ensure that this is done in an open, safe and responsible manner. Standards will support:
- safety testing, legislation and regulation
- worker, public and environmental safety
- commercialisation and procurement
- patenting and IPR
- communication about the benefits, opportunities and potential problems associated with nanotechnologies.
This will be achieved by providing agreed ways of:
- naming, describing and specifying things
- measuring and testing things.
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