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• Environmental groups dispute about nanotechnology

  We mentioned earlier a request for comment on a proposed Nano Risk Framework for approaching nanotechnology materials safety organized by Environmental Defense and DuPont. Now a different group of organizations has come out against that framework. Their statement Read more
  Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 7:48 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Common sense about Samsung silver nanotechnology

  Nanowerk reports that the German branch of Friends of the Earth (BUND) is calling for Samsung to withdraw from the market its washing machine using silver nanoparticles: …BUND criticized that considerable amounts of silver could enter sewage plants and Read more
  Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:50 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Nanobusiness, Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, Asia Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Nanotechnology DNA sensor promises benefits, possible downsides

  We are only in the very early stages of nanotechnology bringing new abilities to DNA reading, but the latest such nanotech advance comes from New Mexico Tech profs Peng Zhang and Snezna Rogelj, described in an article by George Zamora: NM Tech Researchers Read more
  Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 5:06 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotech, Nano, Future Warfare, Nanomedicine, Military nanotechnology, Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Research, Ethics, Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology risks? Ask the economists

  Darrell Dvorak at MidwestBusiness.com points out that there’s often some expertise missing from discussions on nanotech risk: Because nanotech operates at the molecular level, there has been much speculation about new, unknown risks of nano products Read more
  Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:36 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Nanotechnology, Economics, Nanotech, Nano

• Think twice before labeling nanotechnology products

  The ETC Group, recently mentioned here for its PR skills, has announced a contest to design a Nano-Hazard symbol for nanotechnology: Standard setting bodies around the world are now scrambling to agree on nomenclature that can describe nanoparticles and nanomaterials. Read more
  Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:49 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Nanotechnology medicine policy report disputed

  The ETC Group has a new 63-page PDF report out titled “Nanotech Rx — Medical Applications of Nano-scale Technologies: What Impact on Marginalized Communities?” Although we at Foresight share ETC’s concern for these communities, we disagree Read more
  Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:30 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanomedicine