A recent Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) survey of packaging manufacturers and the food industry reveals that Food Standards Australia New Zealand are failing to protect consumers from the risks associated with the use of nanomaterials in food packaging....
Friends of the Earth has today launched a new campaign for the precautionary regulation and testing of emerging technologies. The Emerging Tech Project will predominantly focus on nanotechnology, geoengineering [1] and synthetic biology [2] and maintain a watch on...
Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) have today released a report which highlights the failure of Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to ensure that nanomaterials used in the Australian food chain are safe. The Report, Way too little, shows that...
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 broad coalition of groups – including Friends of the Earth, the Australia Institute, the Consumer Federation of Australia, GeneEthics and the National Toxics Network – have signed a statement calling on the Government to implement in full the recommendations...