Calls Rise for More Research on Toxicology of Nanomaterials

摘要

A rising chorus of government, industry, academic, and environmental leaders is calling for dramatic increases in funding to study possible adverse health and environmental effects of nanotechnology. These individuals—who don't often sing from the same songbook—argue that without this research, nanotechnology is setting itself up for the same kind of consumer backlash that has haunted genetically modified foods. In the past few weeks, the heads of DuPont and Environmental Defense and committees for the British Royal Society and the Science Council of Japan all have joined the choir.