Big environment risks from nano

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...

Food workers call for nano moratorium

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...

Audio discussion: nano impacts & development

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...

Nanotechnology – the new threat to food

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...