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Peter Melchett, policy director of the UK’s largest organic certifier the Soil Association, has written in the Daily Mail that public scepticism about nanofood should be heeded, and that nanotechnology should be kept out of...

The Australian Consumers Association, the Biological Farmers of Australia, the GeneEthics Network, the Public Health Association of Australia and the SEARCH Foundation have joined Friends of the Earth in calling for genuine public engagement...

Testing commissioned by Friends of the Earth Australia has found nanoparticles in foundations and concealers sold by 10 top name brands including Clinique, Clarins, L’Oréal, Revlon, The Body Shop, Max Factor, Lancôme Paris, By...

This is reprinted from “A guest blog in the Alternative Perspectives on Technology Innovation series“, hosted by Andrew Maynard’s 2020 Science blog The promise that a given new technology will deliver environmentally benign electricity...

FoEA has joined 170 NGOs from over 36 countries world-wide in calling on governments to amend the technology transfer text at Copenhagen to include an explicit commitment to precaution, and to prevent promotion of...

UPDATE;  In September 2012, Friends of the Earth selected several Australia sunscreens which we hoped were free from untested and unsafe nano-ingredients. We submitted these sunscreens for testing by the Government’s National Measurement Institute,...

There are increasing government initiatives here and around the world to let the public “have its say” on nanotechnology issues. Yet in their article, published in the journal Nanoethics, Griffith University’s Dr Kristen Lyons...

New researched published in Nature Nanotechnology shows that nanoparticles can damage DNA and chromosomes in cells, across an intact barrier of other cells. The research suggests that nanoparticles could cause cancer, or even birth...

A few months ago Ray Kurzweil predicted that within 20 years, nanotechnology will enable [those who can afford it] to live forever. Now the UK Telegraph has reported claims by US futurist Paul Saffo...

The reality of the Australian government’s approach to nanotechnology belies its stated commitment to social democracy, writes Griffith University senior lecturer Dr Kristen Lyons in the Sydney Morning Herald, Age and Brisbane Times newspapers....