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In what may be a world first, Australia’s national sunscreens regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, has ordered a sunscreen company to stop advertising its product as “not nano”. The co-regulatory body of the TGA is...

Standards Australia’s new proposal to let companies raise SPF ratings from 30+ to 50+ has been greeted with controversy. The Cancer Council has expressed concern that although extra sun protection offered will be minimal...

An interesting article in Food Safety News describes the huge enthusiasm from the food industry for using nano-ingredients in food. Despite this, the reporter found that few companies would admit whether or not they...

An interesting article in Food Safety News describes the huge enthusiasm from the food industry for using nano-ingredients in food. Despite this, the reporter found that few companies would admit whether or not they were using it now....

Nanotechnology is often promoted as a means to end hunger, dramatically reduce disease, or even to overcome poverty – in short, as a boon for the world’s poorest people. However, in a new book...

Is the new wave of science communication – web-based, renegade and prolific – going to democratise science or not? Are social media simply the latest frontier for public engagement? FOEA recently got together with...

The Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU) has unanimously passed a resolution supporting calls for regulating nanoparticles and recommending that workplaces use only nano-free sunscreens. The AEU resolution recognised that nanoparticles in...

Friends of the Earth has released a new report debunking industry promises that nanotechnology offers solutions to our most pressing environmental problems, including climate change. The report by Friends of the Earth groups in the United...

Scientists have long worried about the ecological dangers of releasing powerful nano-antibacterials into waste and water streams. Now New Scientist reports that exposure to nano-silver, commonly used in odour-killing socks and clothing, triggers microbes...

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian cosmetics industry body ACCORD has thrown its weight behind calls for mandatory labelling of nano-ingredients in cosmetics and sunscreens. The move increasingly isolates the national sunscreens regulator,...