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The European Trade Union Confederation, representing 82 European trade unions, has called for the “no safety data, no market” principle to be applied to nanoparticles. In its new statement the ETUC “calls on the...

Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne has a long-standing interest in nanotechnology and new technology issues. In the June Government Estimates hearings, Senator Milne grilled Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr, the head of the Department’s...

New scientific evidence has been published that multi-walled carbon nanotubes – the so-called ‘wonder material’ of nanotechnology – cause mesothelioma in test mice. A scientific study published in the May issue of "Nature Nanotechnology"...

We have just published English, French and Spanish summaries of our report "Out of the laboratory and on to our plates: Nanotechnology in food and agriculture". You can download them below.

New research published this week shows that multi-walled carbon nanotubes cause asbestos-like disease when injected into mice stomachs. The shocking findings have prompted The Australian Cancer Council’s CEO Professor Ian Olver to call for...

Australian academics have published a wide-ranging analysis (download paper below) of nanotechnology’s likely transformation of food and agricultural systems. Dr Gyorgy Scrinis and Dr Kristen Lyons write: “Nanotechnology is attracting large-scale investment from global...

Concerned about nano? Have your say! The NSW Parliament is now holding a public inquiry into nanotechnology. This is one of the first opportunities members of the public and civil society groups have been...

Our new report reveals that at least 104 food, food packaging and agricultural products containing nano-ingredients are now on sale internationally. These include diet replacement milkshakes, cooking oil, tea and fortified fruit juice; food...

Friends of the Earth Australia has joined an international coalition of 44 environment, public interest and labour organisations calling for urgent precautionary management of nanotechnology’s toxicity risks to human health and the environment, and...

In March this year, the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) called for a global moratorium on nanotechnology. The IUF cited concerns regarding the health and...