Our report, Way too little, looks at the now widespread presence of nanomaterials in our food chain and how little Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and other regulators are doing to ensure our safety.
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...
Recent media reports that “nanoparticles in sunscreen are harmless” on the basis of a recently published study don’t reflect the paper’s own conclusions nor the current state of the science. Whilst the results of this lab study study are interesting, more studies are...
Recent media reports that “nanoparticles in sunscreen are harmless” on the basis of a recently published study don’t reflect the paper’s own conclusions nor the current state of the science. Louise Sales, Friends of the Earth’s Nanotechnology Project Coordinator...