Posted 04.11.2015

A study by Danish scientists points out that risk assessment might not be appropriate when it comes to endocrine disrupters and nanomaterials

Kristian Syberg and Steffen Foss Hansen from Roskilde University and the Technical Univerisity, respectively have just published a paper in Science of The Total Environment questioning the general use of environmental risk assessment to guide...

Posted 21.10.2015

In a scientific study published in EBioMedicine, carbon nanotubes were found in the lungs of children in Paris suffering from asthma (see http://www.ebiomedicine.com/article/S2352-3964%2815%2930175-4/abstract).

The study is the first to show that people are regularly exposed and the source of...

Posted 14.10.2015

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) in the USA has just released a new searchable database of consumer food products that contain nanotechnology. One of the sources is The Nanodatabase.

The database contains almost 300 food products and food contact products that use “nano” spaning more than 40 different materials.

See the new database at