State government inquiry calls for new safety testing and labelling, ignores social issues and calls for public participation
Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state government has released the report of its 10 month Parliamentary Inquiry into nanotechnology. The Inquiry recognised the serious health and environment risks of nanoparticles and called for new safety testing and mandatory...96% Australians want safety testing, 92% support labelling nanofoods and food packaging
A poll of 1010 people comes as a wake-up call to Australia’s food safety regulator, showing that Australians overwhelmingly want a higher level of risk assessment and transparency in labelling of nano ingredients in food and food packaging. 96% of Australians...Government gives disappointing response to nano workplace risks inquiry
The Australian Government has issued its long awaited response to the recommendations of the 2005-06 Senate Inquiry into workplace exposure to toxic dust and nanoparticles. Disappointingly, the Government ignored 2 of the 3 key recommendations. These include...Proposed new Australian food standards will not manage toxic risks of nanofoods
For the first time, food companies will have to declare to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) when their products contain nanotechnology ingredients, additives, food processing aids or contaminants that could pose new toxicity risks, if the regulator’s...Crazytech
Stupid technologies we don't need.....
And that could destroy life on Earth.
And that could destroy life on Earth.