The nanotechnology industry is increasingly promoting nano as a “green” technology that will improve the environmental performance of existing industries, reduce our consumption of resources and energy, and allow us to achieve environmentally benign economic...
In March this year, the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) called for a global moratorium on nanotechnology. The IUF cited concerns regarding the health and environmental risks...
Chris Richards from New Internationalist magazine and Melbourne radio station 3CR interviewsGeorgia Miller from Friends of the Earth Australia and Nnimmo Bassey from Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria. Georgia and Nnimmo map out nanotechnology’s broader...
Reprinted from “Clean Food Organic”. Following on from genetic engineering, nanotechnology represents the latest high technology attempt to infiltrate our food supply. Senior scientists have warned that nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of...
Friends of the Earth Australia has joined an international coalition of 20 public interest organisations in rejecting proposals to manage the risks associated with nanotechnology by using voluntary measures. The coalition has released an open letter (download below)...