Friends of the Earth concludes that the National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan is inadequate because it fails to meaningfully address the environmental, health and safety aspects of nanotechnology and because the plan has a clear commercial bias. FoE calls...
A submission by FoEA to the European Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks regarding the potential health and environmental risks associated with the increasing use of nano-silver. In hospitals nano-silver is used extensively for the...
As with antibiotics, the overuse of nano-‐silver will promote resistance to this important antimicrobial. Already, there is evidence of bacterial resistance to silver in many clinical settings. Antimicrobial experts such as Prof. John Turnidge have warned that...
Submission to the European Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) on nano zinc oxide, regarding both its toxicity and the possibility of it penetrating human skin.