Friends of the Earth submission regarding the draft Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority report Regulatory Considerations for Nanopesticides and Veterinary Nanomedicines.
Friends of the Earth have made a submission to the Senate Inquiry on Environmental Biosecurity regarding the potential environmental biosecurity risks posed by synthetic biology as we believe that our current regulatory regimes are inadequate to deal with them.
You can read more about the objectives of the public consultation on the European Commission’s website.
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...