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Safety ignored in nanotech rush, warn experts
Developing countries have embarked on a nanotechnology spree in the absence of health and safety guidelines, experts have cautioned.
Countries including China, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are intensively seeking to commercialise nanotechnology.
But unlike the European Union, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States — which have taken public concerns on board and developed preliminary guidance documents on the use of the technology — developing countries are not engaging in public discourse, said experts at a workshop on nanotechnology governance and regulation held ... |
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Are your products BPA-free?
According to a recent article in the American Scientist more than 45 billion kilograms of plastics are produced annually in the United States and bispenol A (BPA), a commonly used plastic additive, ranks in the top 2 percent of high-production-volume chemicals. In recent years public concern over BPA has increased as new research regarding how it may affect human health has come to light. The U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) recently expressed concern regarding BPA’s adverse effects to the “brain, behavior and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and children.” To date there has been little ... |
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