Canada’s Proposed Plan of Priorities, released by Environment and Climate Change Canada and Health Canada in October 2024, outlines the government’s strategy and priorities to protect human and environmental health over the next few years through chemical management. The Plan includes which substances are prioritized for safety assessment, activities to manage chemical risks, and the development of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to replace animal testing.

These unprecedented times are calling on all of us to be our best selves, and to step away from what we were doing, to the pressing needs of now.

The Society for Risk Analysis is a multidisciplinary, international society that brings together experts for all aspects of risk analysis. Within that society, the Emerging Nanomaterials Specialty Group (ENMSG) brought focus to the risk analysis of emerging nanoscale materials.