Understanding Public Perception of Nanomaterials and Their Safety in the EU

Download or read book Understanding Public Perception of Nanomaterials and Their Safety in the EU written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although nanotechnology is considered to be a key enabling technology and manufactured nanomaterials are an integral part of our everyday lives, there are concerns on the safety of some of the established and newer applications of traditional and more advanced nanomaterials. Therefore, the need to examine how nanomaterials are perceived by the public is important. This study investigates the public perception of manufactured nanomaterials as a group, and their use in different consumer products together with shopping habits, trust in authorities, preferred information sources and labelling requirements among the general population in five European countries - Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France and Poland. The data was collected using the Computer-Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) methodology survey in February 2020. The survey questionnaire was drafted based on a literature search concerning the perception of nanomaterials or nanotechnologies as reflected in published literature. This desk research also provides hypotheses which are further analysed in the study together with trends over time, regional differences, socio-demographic factors, and cognitive drivers affecting the public perception of nanomaterials.