High-level experts have told a meeting of European and US consumer groups that commercial use of nanomaterials is going “underground”, with companies increasingly reluctant to disclose their use of nanotechnology. Euractive.com, an EU policy news service,...
Our report details the growing threat to public health posed by extreme germ killer nano silver, and exposing the huge number of consumer applications in which it is found. Silver has long been known as a potent antibacterial agent. However its use has exploded in...
In a new story on The 7.30 Report, nanotoxicologist Assoc Professor Paul Wright (director of the Nanoafe Australia research network) and Assoc Professor Tom Faunce (medicine and law at the Australian National University) have backed calls from the Australian Council...
We now know that both titanium dioxide nanoparticles (used in sunscreens, cosmetics, food packaging, paints, clothing and more) and carbon fullerenes (used in high end anti-ageing creams and mooted for use in medicines, solar cells and superconductors) can be passed...
The June Newsletter of the Innovation Society (St Gallen, Switzerland), suggests that a series of legislative amendments adopted by the European Parliament over the past two months “might herald a change of paradigm for nanotechnology regulation in Europe, from...