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| | Hello CUSP Community and Stakeholders We hope this finds you well. Read all about it! News and updates from the CUSP projects and working groups are available now in issue No.4 of the CUSP Newsletter. Read it here: the Newsletter on the CUSP website or the Newsletter on Zenodo What's in this issue? This 4th CUSP Newsletter provides up to date information on the research output and other activities from each of the five projects and six working groups that make up the cluster. Significant progress has been made in researching the risks of micro- and nanoplastics on human health. Notable achievements include our workshop series on human risk assessment and the launch of the first CUSP Policy Brief. Ongoing initiatives on inter-lab comparisons, true-to-life materials, and human biomonitoring continue to advance knowledge in the field. Looking ahead, Rudolf Reuther (PlasticsFatE), the new CUSP chair for 2023, envisages an intensified research phase, tackling challenges in methodology validation and development with real test materials and systems. Meanwhile, CUSP researchers have been busy advancing research across all six working groups. Read more about the upcoming interlaboratory comparisons which promise to be the largest initiative of its kind hosted by the pre-standardisation platform VAMAS. This latest edition also provides details of upcoming events where CUSP partners are contributing and presenting results, and gives you an opportunity to meet some more of our scientists. We hope you find this of interest. If you'd like to follow up on any of the news items, please get in touch with us at hello@cusp-research.eu Best wishes from all CUSP Partners |
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| | About CUSP There is widespread scientific evidence on the ubiquity of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) in our environment. The tiny particles which result from the degradation of larger plastics or which are manufactured and added to products for different purposes find their way into the human body through the food we eat, the water we drink or the very air we breathe. Yet, so far, we know little about the risks they pose to human health. For this reason, the European Commission has decided to fund five research projects - AURORA, ImpTox, PLASTICHEAL, PlasticsFatE and POLYRISK - that together form the European Research Cluster to Understand the Health Impacts of Micro- and NanoPlastics: CUSP. They will collaborate in gathering policy-relevant scientific data to improve the risk assessment of MNPs on human health. | | |
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| | | These projects have received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreements: AURORA No.964827, ImpTox No.965173, PLASTICHEAL No.965196, PlasticsFatE No.965367, and POLYRISK No.964766. |
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