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Safe Sunscreen Guide 2009-10
This summer's Safe Sunscreen Guide gives the Australian public information to make an informed choice and to avoid high risk nano sunscreens. This year our guide also includes secondary sunscreens (moisturisers, anti-ageing creams and mineral foundations).
New nano strategy a big cop-out
Friends of the Earth Australia today labeled the new National Enabling Technologies Strategy a cop out, saying it failed to recognise the community’s ‘right to know’ in relation to exposure, or to close legal gaps that leave most nano-products effectively unregulated and consumers and workers unwittingly exposed.
Please make a submission on new nano laws
Please make a submission to the national regulator, NICNAS, to support precautionary management of nanoparticle risks. Submissions are due by this friday.
High risk nano-sunscreens still on sale – TGA refuses to act
Sunscreen is an important part of millions of Australians' summer holidays. But the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has taken no action to stop use in sunscreens of high risk nanoparticles, more than a year after these ingredients were identified by BlueScope Steel researchers.
Suspect nano-ingredients found in big name cosmetics
Testing commissioned by Friends of the Earth has found nanoparticles in foundations and concealers sold by big name brands, including Revlon, Clarins, Clinique, Max Factor, the Body Shop, L’Oréal, By Terry and Lancôme Paris.
Nano silver: extreme germ killer presents a growing threat to public health
Our new report released today details the growing threat to public health posed by extreme germ killer nano silver, and exposing the huge number of consumer applications in which it is found.
NSW government rejects key nano safety, consumer choice recommendations
The NSW Government yesterday released its official response to recommendations made by the 2008 NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Nanotechnology. It backed away from key recommendations to promote nano-product safety, workplace disclosure and consumer choice.
Unions call for action to oversee nanotechnology
Unions are demanding urgent regulation of the nanotechnology industry, citing mounting evidence that some tiny particles used in products such as sunscreens and cosmetics could be as harmful as asbestos.
Europe declares de facto moratorium on nanotech food
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have set stringent new rules for the safety assessment of foods produced used nanotechnology (‘nanofoods’) which constitute a de facto moratorium on the sales of nanofood in the European Union.
New calls for caution on asbestos-like carbon nanotubes from high level European Scientific Committee
The European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) has released its new “Risk Assessment of Products of Nanotechnologies”. In particular, it draws attention to the health risks of carbon nanotubes.
96% OF PUBLIC WANT TESTS ON POTENTIALLY TOXIC FOOD ADDITIVES, POLL SAYS
A poll of 1,010 people released today shows more than 9 in 10 Australians want safety checks on potentially toxic tiny food additives called nanoparticles. The poll was commissioned by Friends of the Earth Australia (FoE) and carried out by Essential Research.
New food standards will not manage toxic risks of tiny-tech nanofoods
For the first time, food companies will have to declare to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) when their products contain nanotechnology ingredients, additives, food processing aids or contaminants that could pose new toxicity risks, if the regulator’s proposed new standards are approved.
New evidence that nanomaterials may be the next asbestos
New scientific evidence has been published today that multi-walled carbon nanotubes – the so-called “wonder material” of nanotechnology – cause mesothelioma in test mice.
No labels, no safety testing – our new report reveals high tech nanofoods pose toxic risks Friends of the Earth Australia
Our new report reveals that at least 104 food, food packaging and agricultural products containing nano-ingredients are now on sale internationally. March 11, 2008
![Public Forum: NANOTECHNOLOGY - Silver bullet or can of worms? [Sydney]](http://www.foe.org.au/nano-tech/media/news-items/front-page-news-feed-1/public-forum-nanotechnology-silver-bullet-or-can-of-worms-sydney/image_thumb "Public Forum: NANOTECHNOLOGY - Silver bullet or can of worms? [Sydney]")
Public Forum: NANOTECHNOLOGY - Silver bullet or can of worms? [Sydney]
This public forum looks at the health, environment and social impacts of what is being called the next industrial revolution. 12th March.
public forum: nanotechnology and food (Katoomba)
This forum will provide a brief introduction to nanotechnology - what it is and how it works - before talking about how it is being used in food right now, what new problems this poses, and what we can all do to say no to nano-foods.
Nanotechnology and Sunscreens
Sun worshippers beware. While using sunscreen to block dangerous UV rays, you may be exposing yourself to a new danger. Sunscreen manufacturers are adding nanoparticles to sunscreens to make sun-blocking ingredients like titanium dioxide and zinc oxide rub on clear instead of white. These nanoparticles are being added without appropriate labeling or reliable safety information—and they pose potential threats to human health.
position available: Nanotechnology Project campaigner
This position, based in Melbourne is for 3 days a week on a 12 month contract. It is focussed on alliance building and outreach, communications work and volunteer management. Applications close this friday, November 16.
