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News Articles - Inventories - Reports & Articles - Radio Shows - Videos

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News Articles

- Groups demand EPA stop sale of 200+ potentually dangerous nano-silver products
1 May 2008 - NanoAction, USA

- New Nanotech Products Hitting the Market at the Rate of 3-4 Per Week; Nanotechnology Consumer Products Are in Your Mouth and On Your Face
24 April 2008 - Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, USA

- Nanotechnology Industry is Moving from Research to Production with over 500 Consumer Nano-Products Already Available
7 April 2008 - NanoVIP, USA

- As nanotech goes mainstream, 'toxic socks' raise concerns
6 April 2008 - EurekAlert, USA

- Industry Analysts Predict Revenues from Products Incorporating Nanotechnology to Reach Close to $3 Trillion US Within 10 Years
24 March 2008 - Nano Science & Technology institute, USA

- Nanotech breakthrough promises stronger condoms and golf balls
20 March 2008 - IT Wire, Australia

- The Perils of Nanotech, Part 1: Dancing in the Dark
4 March 2008 - TechNewsWorld, USA

- Organic retailer launches nano-info campaign
6 February 2008 - Cosmetic News, France

- Labels of contention
1 February 2008 - Andrew Maynard for SafeNano, UK

Archives

Inventories

Two inventories of nanotechnology products - with different goals - are available on the internet:

- The Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory

The database developed by the think-tank NanotechProject, is dedicated to helping ensure that as nanotechnologies advance, possible risks are minimized. It includes a regularly updated listing of more than 500 nanotechnology-based consumer products currently on the market

- The Nanoshop
The product directory is maintained by a group of editors, engineers and industry consultants who want "to help promote nanotechnology"

Reports & Articles

Regulation of Nanotechnology in Consumer Products - Innovation Society, Switzerland, October 2007

The new report to the NanoRegulation Conference containing short summaries of the presentations, selected slides and the results from the workshop discussions deals with nanotechnology in consumer products from different points of view (industry, insurances, NGOs, regulators) as well as the appropriateness of different voluntary measures.

Nanotech – small scale, big questions, Which?, UK, September 2007

Which? is concerned that the UK Government is failing to address fundamental uncertainties about how some materials will behave at this small scale. In the rush to put nano-products on the market, the potential health and environmental risks are not being properly addressed. "The public needs to be consulted and involved in the decisions about the issues raised by nanotech."

Which?'s ten point action plan includes:
- Establishing a strategic stakeholder group to push the actions needed
- Prioritising research into health and environmental risks
- Making sure the public is consulted through a UK-wide debate about the direction of nanotechnologies

- Our Silver-Coated Future - On Earth, USA, Fall 2007

Already there are nanosilver coatings or infusions in computer keyboards, computer mice, nail clippers, dog food bowls, spatulas, back support pillows, pay phones, air purifiers, handrails, ATM buttons -- anywhere one set of hands might come into indirect contact with another set.
Might exposure to nanoscale particles of silver have more pernicious side-effects? It's hard to say, because few studies have been done specifically on nanosilver. Despite this uncertainty, consumer products with nanosilver keep being introduced. And without any requirements for premarket safety testing, manufacturers have no incentive to conduct such tests on their own

Nanotechnology: Untold promise, unknown risk - Consumer Reports, USA, July 2007

- Overview
- Nanotechnology: Cause for concern
- Great potential
- Possible risks: No small matter
- Protecting workers
- Protecting consumers
- What must be done
- Nanoparticles in sunscreens
- Striking uses of nanotechnology
- What you can do

- Nanotechnology in Consumer Products, European Nanoforum, October 2006.
The report provides an overview of nanotechnology-related products on the market. In addition a comprehensive list of effects and innovations is evaluating what is really "nano" in todays nanotechnology products.

- NanoWerk's introduction to Nanomaterials.

Video

- Nanotechnology in everyday life
2 November - WNYT, USA

- The TWINKIE Guide to Nanotechnology - Andrew D. Maynard, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, October 2007

An entertaining new video featuring scientist Andrew Maynard which mixes the iconic American snack cake with humor to unlock the mysteries of nanotechnology.

It is a friendly, funny, 25-minute travel guide to the technology that promises to ignite the next industrial revolution. In the video, Maynard shows products that use nanotechnology today.

Radio Shows

- The Promise (and Perils) of Nanotechnology
11 September 2007 - On earth, USA
Nanotechnology already is being used to reformulate many of the products we use. Yet despite concern among scientists about dangerous consequences, the federal government has taken a laissez faire approach. Why is there such lax oversight of these exotic, new nanomaterials, and what does that mean for consumers?

- Microscopic science is changing what's on store shelves
18 June 2007 - Wisconsin Public Radio, USA

- Nanotechnology, nanoregulation
16 May 2007 - Marketplace, USA

- Can you tell which consumer products are nano?
January, Earth & Sky, USA