Macquarie University’s Professor Brian Gulson reported last week that isotope-labelled zinc from nano-sunscreens penetrates healthy adult skin and reaches the blood stream and urine of human test subjects. The study results undermine the Therapeutic Goods...
For the first time, an Australian regulator is proposing to regulate nanomaterials used in hundreds of cosmetics, sunscreens, clothes, paints and industrial chemicals. NICNAS wants to hear what you think about its plans to manage the health and environmental risks of...
Friends of the Earth’s submission to the National Industrial Chemical Notification and Assessment Scheme inquiry into regulatory reform relating to industrial chemicals.
Peter Melchett, policy director of the UK’s largest organic certifier the Soil Association, has written in the Daily Mail that public scepticism about nanofood should be heeded, and that nanotechnology should be kept out of food. The full article is printed...
In a new report, the Science and Technology Committee of the UK House of Lords criticises industry secrecy surrounding the use and development of nanofoods. It also warns that the health risks of nanofoods remain poorly understood. However the committee rejected calls...