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January 14, 2009
PEN 17 - A Hard Pill to Swallow
Historically, the regulation of dietary supplements has been a significant challenge for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the fact that some of these products are now being manufactured using nanotechnology creates an additional layer of complexity. Is FDA equipped to meet the emerging regulatory challenge of dietary supplements that use engineered nanomaterials?
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December 9, 2008
Federal Government Nanotechnology Environment, Health and Safety Research
Federal risk-research funding options for moving forward under the next administration
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September 9, 2008
PEN 15 - Silver Nanotechnologies and the Environment
Widespread use of nanoscale silver will challenge regulatory agencies to balance important potential benefits against the possibility of significant environmental risk, highlighting the need to identify research priorities concerning this emerging technology, according to a new report released today by the Project.
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August 21, 2008
PEN 14 - The Consumer Products Safety Commission and Nanotechnology
The inability of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to carry out its mandate with respect to simple, low-tech products such as children’s jewelry and toy trains bodes poorly for its ability to oversee the safety of complex, high-tech products made using nanotechnology, according to E. Marla Felcher.
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July 23, 2008
PEN 13 - Nanotechnology Oversight
Few domestic policy areas that the new administration must address will have greater long-range consequences than nanotechnology — a new technology that has been compared with the industrial revolution in terms of its impact on society. If the right decisions are made, nanotechnology will bring vast improvements to almost every area of daily living. If the wrong decisions are made, the American economy, human health and the environment will suffer.
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May 1, 2008
How to Reduce Your Firm’s Risk and Increase Revenues Related to Nanotechnology
With limited time and resources, how can your firm start to think about or expand on its environmental, health, and safety (EHS) practices related to the use of nanomaterials? This pamphlet presents eight suggestions to assist nano firms in addressing EHS issues associated with the production and use of nanomaterials.
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April 24, 2008
Congressional Testimony - National Nanotechnology Initiative: Charting the Course for Reauthorization
New nanotechnology consumer products are coming on the market at the rate of three to four per week, a finding based on the latest update to the nanotechnology consumer product inventory. Today, in testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, PEN Project Director David Rejeski cited Ace Silver Plus—another of the nine nano toothpastes in the inventory—as an example of the upsurge in nanotechnology consumer products in stores. The hearing marks the start of U.S. Senate debate on the future direction of the annual $1.5 billion federal investment in nanotechnology research and development .
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April 9, 2008
PEN 11 - Room at the Bottom?
State and local governments often have adopted trailblazing initiatives to address environmental, health and safety concerns in advance or in lieu of federal action. With nanotechnology, an emerging field of science with unknown risks, this practice is continuing, a landmark study has found.
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January 4, 2008
Looking Back on the First Two Years
This report reviews the Project’s major activities, key contributions, and most significant impacts over its first two years.
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December 12, 2007
A Survey of Environmental, Health and Safety Risk Management Information Needs and Practices among Nanotechnology Firms in the Massachusetts Region
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December 3, 2007
Feynman, Voltaire and Beckett on Nanotechnology
This presentation examines flaws in the assertion by the U.S. government that the existing regulatory system is adequate to address risks from nanotechnologies and explores actions that need to be taken to help foster successful commercialization of nano products.
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April 1, 2007
Green Nanotechnology: It’s Easier Than You Think (Report)
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December 5, 2006
What Drives Public Acceptance of Nanotechnology?
Published in Nature Nanotechnology 1
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July 1, 2006
Nanotechnology Startup Concerns, Information Needs, and Opportunities to Proactively Address Environmental, Health, and Social Issues
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June 20, 2006
Examining the Viability of Patent Pools to the Growing Nanotechnology Patent Thicket