Nano-foods: The next consumer scare?
Wed Jul 30, 2008
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Those consumers already worried about genetically engineered or cloned food reaching their tables may soon find something else in their grocery carts to furrow their brows over -- nano-foods.
Consumer advocates taking part in a food safety conference in Orlando, Florida, this week said food produced by using nanotechnology is quietly coming onto the market, and they want U.S. authorities to force manufacturers to identify them.
Groups Demand EPA Stop Sale Of 200+ Potentially Dangerous Nano-Silver
Nanotech Watchdog Launches First-Ever Legal Challenge To EPA Over
Unregulated Nanotech Pesticide Pollution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 1, 2008
Contact: George Kimbrell, International Center for Technology Assessment
(CTA), 202-547-9359, gkimbrell@icta.org; Kevin Golden, International
Center for Technology Assessment (CA office), 415-826-2770,
kgolden@icta.org
Washington, DC - The International Center for Technology Assessment
(CTA) and a coalition of consumer, health, and environmental groups
today filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency
Soil Association first organisation in the world to ban nanoparticles - potentially toxic beauty products that get right under your skin
potentially toxic beauty products that get right under your skin
http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/848d689047cb466780256a6b00298980/42308d944a3088a6802573d100351790!OpenDocument
SOURCE: Soil Association, UK
AUTHOR: Press Release
DATE: 01.17.2008
EPA to regulate a form of nanotechnology
http://www.komotv.com/news/tech/4729686.html
Associated Press and KOMO TV 4 News Seattle
Story Published: Nov 23, 2006 at 8:44 AM PST
Story Updated: Nov 23, 2006 at 1:04 PM PST
WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumer products using extremely small particles of
silver to kill germs will need Environmental Protection Agency approval,
part of the government's first move to regulate the burgeoning
nanotechnology industry.
The EPA said Wednesday it was changing federal policy to require that
manufacturers provide scientific evidence that their use of nanosilver
EPA's Nanotech Regs: Ironic Parameters Clean-up - Clam-up - Screw-up?
News Release
ETC Group
18 October 2006
www.etcgroup.org
During summer vacation, the lead US environmental regulatory agency acknowledged it has approved at least 15 novel nanoscale chemicals. Earlier this year EPA sanctioned the unproven use of iron nanoparticles to clean up a pesticide dump. Hearings this week.
