Nanotechnology

Parliament approved an update of EU legislation on cosmetics when it votes on a first-reading agreement thrashed out between EP and Council representatives. The basic... More

A new model for nanoparticle exposure should provide more realistic insights into the possible health risks of airborne nanoparticles, researchers in Switzerland claim according to... More

Following the recent publication of the European Commission's independent Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) opinion on the most recent developments... More

In a motion to the Swiss Federal Council a group of politicans led by Maya Graf demand nanotechnologies to be regulated in Switzerland according to... More

Information about the toxicity of nanoparticles is important in determining how nanoparticles will be regulated. In the U.S., the burden of collecting this information and... More

The European Commission's independent Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) has published its opinion on the most recent developments in the... More

Attorneys are hard at work protecting nanotech makers - what about consumers? Rick Weiss (Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Science Progress)... More

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to begin enforcing a requirement that directs companies to file premanufacture notices if they manufacture or import... More