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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) stuff. Usually I don’t have time to write about any of this, and really, why would you want to ...

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 unregulated colloidal nanosilver products really is, features commentary from all sides of ...

After spending a fair bit of time ‘hibernating’ at SAFENANO HQ (well, that’s how I wish it was!), this month sees the beginning of a fairly busy period for the team, and the start of a number of very important new projects in nano HSE. The first of these kicked off on Monday, with the preliminary meeting of the newly-formed FP7 action ...

Today was the UK Nanoforum 2007 in Westminster, London. As part of SAFENANO’s new consultancy service provision launch, myself and Rob flew down to attend. The turnout was great, with around 400 delegates from over 20 countries round the world, and even before lunch we’d spoken to lots of people who were very interested in what SAFENANO had to ...

Today myself and Rob Aitken are at the NanoCentral / CEMMNT  Nanomaterials Networking event in Loughborough. We flew down last night, and despite a cancelled flight, followed by a 'blissful' 4 hour delay in the Airport, and then a walk from the Hotel to the venue that was a little longer than anticipated (try taking your company’s marketing ...

At the end of last week, I invited eight colleagues to become 'guinea pigs' and review the SAFENANO website. Over the last few days, the guinea pigs have been reporting back with their comments on how SAFENANO looks to an independant viewer. The comments and results so far are pretty positive. Everyone seemed to be very keen on the ideas and ...

Thank you very much to everyone who took the time to fill in a SAFENANO Questionnaire at the NanoMaterials Conference in Gateshead last week. If you haven't handed this back already, please send it to us at the IOM in Edinburgh (address is on the questionnaire) or email it to Bryony@safenano.org. The completed questionnaires have gone toward our ...