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German EPA warns against Nanoparticles

By Daniel | Published: October 25, 2009
The following story will likely remain unreported in the US media: Germany’s Umweltbundesamt (UBA) [Federal Environmental Agency] will release a new study today advising consumers to avoid products using nanoparticles, as long as their effects on the environment and human health are largely unknown. The federal agency is also calling for regulations on labeling and reporting [...]
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Daniel Ellsberg: “America has been asleep at the atomic wheel for 64 years” (recommended reading)

By Daniel | Published: August 20, 2009
Arms control is an important issue for me, not just because I scared myself shitless from nanotechnology science fiction during college, but because I also managed to get a ‘biological and chemical arms control’ course under my belt at Vassar . Our worldly relationships as nation units have built up a great deal of terrible [...]
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Religion and Nanotechnology and ‘Framing Nano’ report

By Daniel | Published: May 6, 2009
The Swiss think tank ‘The Innovation Society’ has released a report titled “Framing Nano” (pdf) which explores governance and regulation/legislation in nanotechnology. Some teasers: France, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK and some Scandinavian countries are the most active countries in Europe in addressing the issues related to nanoregulation. The report also describes the various voluntary measures currently [...]
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