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...
A recent US National Research Council (NRC) report on research into environmental, health and safety (EHS) matters relating to nanomaterials provides a disturbing picture of nanomaterials flooding markets all over the world, but EHS work languishing years behind with...
A recent report by Health Care Without Harm Europe suggests that existing regulatory frameworks are insufficient to protect human health and the environment from the use of nanotechnology in healthcare. The author of the report – Dr Rye Senjen from the National...