EU agency sets food safety agenda for year - FoodProductionDaily, USA
Risk assessment research into nanotechnology and marine biotoxins are some of the areas the European Food Safety Authority plans to target this year.

European Food Safety Authority will address nanotechnology safety - NanoWerk, USA
EFSA will address the risk assessment of nanotechnology with the aim to develop harmonized approaches in all Member States. In important objective will be to gather more data for further analysis.

EPA Issues Nanotechnology White Paper - Chemical & Engineering News, USA
The paper provides an overview of the emerging field, a description of potential benefits and risks from nanotechnology, and recommendations for research areas that need to be addressed.

What price beauty? Risk posed by toxics in cosmetics could leave unwary investors with a black eye - Investor Environmental Health Network, USA
Things could get ugly for investors who ignore glaring health risks in the cosmetics industry, warns a new report from the Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN).
The report describes a ticking time bomb scenario of a largely self-policed industry in which regulatory action by the U.S. FDA typically is triggered only by reporting from the companies themselves. "The result is a system that permits significant consumer exposure to occur before sufficiently rigorous safety testing is conducted - ultimately, a game of roulette which places consumers, manufacturers and investors at risk"

A bureaucrat's approach to providing nanotechnology information - NanoWerk, USA
The UK and the U.S. are to work together to develop a global science portal, making scientific information from many countries available via the internet...