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Today I have been working with the OECD Database on research into the safety manufactured nanomaterials. Let me say firstly this is a very impressive and ambitious attempt to gather together information about all of the relevant nano EHS studies which...
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From 2020 Science : I ’m looking at an electron microscope image of a carbon nanotube - as I cannot show it here, you’ll have to imagine it. It shows a long, straight, multi-walled carbon nanotube, around 100 nanometers wide and 10 micrometers long. There...
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So you want to make or use carbon nanotubes, but you are worried about handling then safely. What do you do? The good news is that the UK Health and Safety Executive has just published an information sheet that addresses just this question. Risk management...
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So, it's the end of what's been a pretty full on week for the SAFENANO team, and i'm confused! Not really a suprise or a change from the norm i guess, but this time i thought i'd write it down and see if SAFENANO's readers can offer any help!... To provide...
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From 2020science: Ten years ago to the month, one of the first research reports detailing the challenges of ensuring the safe use of engineered nanomaterials was delivered to the UK Health and Safety Executive. The report wasn’t for general release, and...
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Over the weekend, I stumbled across Nano Tube , an online compendium of useful, funny and plain weird short films based around nanotechnology. It’s a competition being run by ACSnanonation, which invites entrants to capture what nano is, how its best...
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In my usual daily trawlings of the web for newsworthy items to add to SAFENANO.org, I get through plenty of news that isn’t really relevant to our initiative, and occasionally come across some totally weird and wonderful (but in a geeky-kinda way great)...
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Last week, Ratna Tantra of the National Physical Laboratories (NPL) payed a visit to IOM and the SAFENANO team. During this time, she provided us with this blog, which collates her thoughts on nanoparticle characterisation and the needs of end users:...
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From 2020science.org : Introducing MINChar —a new community initiative to support effective material characterization in nanotoxicity studies. Here’s a tough one: Imagine you have a new substance—call it substance X—and you run some tests to see how toxic...
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From 2020science.org : The National Research Council of the National Academies releases its review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research. And it’s not pretty. Most people...
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From 2020science: Nanotechnology—like other emerging technologies—presents a dilemma: If you're making new substances with uncertain health risks, how low is low enough when it comes to managing exposure? The issue is raised in the current edition of...
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November saw the publication of a commentary in Nature Nanotech bearing the title “The US must help set international standards for nanotechnology” ( here ). As the title suggests, the document was an exhortation for the US to take an active role in the...
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From 2020science.org : First impressions of the ICON EHS Database Analysis Tool What do you do this holiday season when the turkey’s lost its appeal, you’ve seen every movie worth watching ten times over, and conversational déjà-vu sets in? If you are...
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An article on the potential health risks of nanosilver published in 'The Scotsman' newspaper has prompted fresh debate in this controversial area. The article , published in Sunday's issue of The Scotsman, attempts to examine exactly how safe use of as-yet...
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From 2020science.org : The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution report on Novel Materials Imagine for one naïve moment that we have a pretty good handle on managing the environmental impact of existing manufactured “stuff”. Then someone comes along...
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From 2020science.org : UK Consumer Organization Which? Releases New Report Who needs an emerging technologies blog when you have The Daily Mail ? For those of you that missed it, Wednesday’s on-line issue of the British tabloid newspaper highlighted “The...
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From 2020Science.org : Twelve months ago today I held a bag of multi-walled carbon nanotubes up before a hearing of the U.S. House Science Committee. I wanted to emphasize the discrepancy between the current state of the science on carbon nanotubes, and...
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First posted on 2020science.org , 20th October 2008: Is the RBC Life Sciences® nanotechnology product Slim Shake approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? According to the BBC Radio 4 science program Frontiers —broadcast on Monday...
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From 2020science.org : Whoever would have thought a science juggling act could be so much fun? Or so informative? Yet a couple of weeks back I found myself grinning like a ten year-old as I sat reviewing a new set of nanotech DVDs. The culprit: "The Amazing...
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From 2020science.org : After three years of hard work, International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Committee TC229 —set up in 2005 to develop nanotechnology-related standards—has finally begun delivering the goods. And the first documents off...
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From 2020Science.org : The silent rave might seem a rather bizarre social phenomenon; a group of strangers converging in a public place and dancing to their own individual iPod soundtracks. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the emerging technology...
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From 2020science.org: So, you have a cool new science that could make a major impact on global challenges like energy, disease and pollution and you want to make sure it reaches its full potential. What do you do? At some point, having a heart to heart...
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I’m afraid the good folks at SAFENANO have corrupted me! Once content to write gloriously inaccessible academic papers, I fear nearly 12 months of blogging for SAFENANO has given me a taste for less than academic musings. So much so, that I have just...
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$38 million! The number keeps floating before my eyes; a retinal imprint from the press release. $38 million for nanotechnology environmental impact research, courtesy of the folks at the U.S. National Science Foundation and Environmental Protection Agency....
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The SafeNANO blog is no stranger to the use (and possible abuse) of nanometre-scale silver—products ranging from silver-enhanced socks and toothpaste to plush toys and cure-alls have all appeared in the spotlight recently. With each passing month, the...
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