"Genug ist genug" - Nature Nanotechnology 7 (2012)
In der Juli-Ausgabe der Zeitschrift "Nature Nanotechnology" kommentieren Steffen Foss Hansen & Anders Braun die Politik der EU zu Nanosilber. Die Autoren fordern: Genug ist genug - h̦rt auf zu untersuchen und fangt an zu regulieren.
Zusammenfassung des Artikels
In December 2011 the European Commission asked its Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) to provide a scientific opinion on nanosilver. Specifically, this committee, which consists of independent scientists appointed by the Commission, is being asked to answer four questions under the general heading of 'Nanosilver: safety, health and environmental effects, and role in antimicrobial resistance'.
However, most of these questions (and possibly all of them) have already been addressed by no less than 18 review articles in scientific journals, the oldest dating back to 2008, plus at least seven more reviews and reports commissioned and/or funded by governments and other organizations. This raises an important question: when will governments and regulatory agencies stop asking for more reports and reviews, and start taking regulatory action?
Quelle: Nature Nanotechnology
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Link zum Artikel (Nature Nanotechnology 7 (7): 409-411): http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v7/n7/full/nnano.2012.115.html