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Chemistry World February 25, 2009 Victoria Gill	Nano-regulation creeps closer Canada has introduced a mandatory safety reporting scheme for companies producing nanomaterials, becoming the first country in the world to do so.
Chemistry World March 2008 Mark Peplow	Editorial: Sweating the Small Stuff In the field of nanotechnology, the devil is in the detail.
Chemistry World July 16, 2012 Maria Burke	Nanosilver in Consumer Goods Under the Spotlight The use of silver nanoparticles in textiles, such as insoles and running shirts, to control unpleasant odors produced by bacteria, appears to present little danger to human health or the aquatic environment, according to a new report by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.
Chemistry World October 2, 2009 Rebecca Trager	EPA issues nanotechnology research strategy Under EPA's new plan, the agency is focusing its research on seven manufactured nanomaterial types, which may require safety decisions.
Chemistry World July 12, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Nano-Review to Assess Policy Progress A review that will check whether the UK government has followed up on promises to regulate nanotechnology might struggle to find much progress, scientists predict.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Karn & Matthews	Nano Particles Without Macroproblems Quick and dirty advice for keeping nanotech clean.
Chemistry World July 2007 Ned Stafford	Seeing the Environmental Wood for the Nanotech Trees German environmentalists issued a report on the potential health and environmental risks of nanotechnology in the hope of rallying international support for more regulatory oversight.
Chemistry World March 2012	Gaining trust for nanotech Our increasing ability to manipulate and create devices at the scale of molecules and cells, and the novel properties which emerge at this level, are talked of as a revolution. But will growing public awareness of nanotech be wary or welcoming?
Chemistry World May 3, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Nano Warning A leading occupational medicine expert in the UK has angered nanoparticle manufacturers by comparing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with asbestos.
Chemistry World November 27, 2009 Ned Stafford	New nano rule for EU cosmetics A new European regulation will require cosmetics manufacturers to list any nanoparticles contained in products marketed within the European Union.
Chemistry World April 9, 2015	Big problems with little particles? There is a risk that poor toxicology studies could start undermining the success of nanomaterials.
Chemistry World August 2007 Richard Jones	Comment: Grand Challenges for Small Science The UK needs to develop a convincing strategy for nanotechnology research.
Food Engineering April 1, 2009 Kevin T. Higgins	Engineering R&D: Nanoscale silver on deck Dolana Blount, senior microbiologist and director of regulatory affairs for Pure Bioscience answers questions about the effectiveness of silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC) against microbes in the food industry.
IndustryWeek September 16, 2009 Jill Jusko	Nano Inventory Tops 1,000: By The Numbers At its current growth rate nano-enabled consumer products could approach 1,600 over the next two years.
Chemistry World July 24, 2014 Andrew Williams	Europe mulls best way to handle nanotech Nanomaterials can end up in all sorts of items. Now there is a drive in Europe to get manufacturers to declare them.
Chemistry World July 19, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Nanotechnology Risk Research Demanded The US government should act fast, and invest significantly, to make sure that nanotechnology and its related products are safe. The call comes from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a think-tank that advises on ways to develop policy alongside this burgeoning science.
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Chemistry World September 16, 2011 Rebecca Trager	US job concerns hamper environmental rules Economic woes and pressure to create jobs in the US are impeding environmental regulation, resulting in President Obama being rebuked by traditional allies and applauded by political opponents.
Chemistry World February 4, 2008 Rebecca Trager	EPA Rolls Out Nanomaterials Safety Drive The agency has launched a new voluntary program to glean more information about nanoscale materials in an effort to manage the risks posed by nanotechnology-enabled products.
Chemistry World November 3, 2009 Rebecca Trager	First tests for pesticide endocrine effects in US The EPA has requested that manufacturers screen seven compounds under this first round, including atrazine - a widely used herbicide that may be associated with birth defects and other problems.
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IndustryWeek August 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	New Tool Evaluates Risk Of Nanomaterials DuPont and Environmental Defense develop a process to aid in responsible development of nanotechnology.
Chemistry World April 20, 2007 Killugudi Jayaraman	Pesticide Filter Debuts in India A domestic water filter that uses metal nanoparticles to remove dissolved pesticide residues is about to enter the Indian market. Its developers believe it is the first product of its kind in the world to be commercialized.
Chemistry World January 2010 Palmer & Felwick	Safety in numbers Regulators struggle with nanotechnology. It's time for more self-regulation, say the authors
Science News November 30, 2008 Janet Raloff	Nanosilver Disinfects -- But At What Price? Consumer and medical products employ billionths-of-a-meter scale silver particles as embedded disinfectants. A study now suggests that if those nanoparticles get loose and into the body, they might wreak havoc with the human immune system.
Chemistry World March 31, 2010 Rebecca Trager	EPA turns spotlight on BPA The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to look more closely at the environmental impacts of bisphenol A, a common ingredient in plastic baby bottles and food storage containers.
Chemistry World July 26, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Predicting nanoparticle toxicity Judging nanoparticle toxicity could be made easier by a new theoretical model that predicts which materials will make nanoparticles that could damage living cells. The model can predict the available electronic energy levels in the nanoparticle structure
Chemistry World September 14, 2009 Hayley Birch	All that is small is not nano Mark Wiesner of Duke University, US, says it is too easy to tar all nanoparticles with the same brush. 'All that is small is not necessarily nano,' he says. 'You need to have that novel property. The question then becomes: what's the taxonomy of these nanomaterials?'
Registered Rep. August 1, 2008	Human Life: Do We Have a Bidder? Five years ago, an individual life was worth almost $1 million more than it is today. The EPA uses this data to determine what regulations are the most cost-effective, and if the price of a life does not exceed the cost of enforcing a particular regulation that will save it, the regs are out.
IndustryWeek March 16, 2011	EHS Regulatory Pressures Rise For global manufacturers, avoiding environmental, health and safety regulations is not quite as simple as picking up and moving operations to a new location. Every single product is regulated in at least one country.
Chemistry World March 9, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Finding the Risks of Nanoparticle Exposure A new model for nanoparticle exposure should provide more realistic insights into the possible health risks of airborne nanoparticles, researchers in Switzerland claim.
Reason December 2003 Ronald Bailey	The Smaller the Better The limitless promise of nanotechnology -- and the growing peril of a moratorium.
Chemistry World January 30, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Nanoencapsulation Paves the Way to Perfumed Pants High street fashions and the products developed to clean them will soon use nanotechnology delivery systems to deliver distinctive fragrances.
Chemistry World September 7, 2012 Rebecca Trager	EPA urged to rethink chemical risk evaluation process The US Environmental Protection Agency's process for assessing the risk of human exposure to various chemicals is deeply flawed and actually threatens public health, according to two experts with inside experience.
Chemistry World June 13, 2011 Rebecca Trager	EPA discloses confidential chemical information The US Environmental Protection Agency has made public company data on over 150 chemicals used in more than 100 health and safety studies.
Chemistry World July 15, 2011 Rebecca Trager	EPA Under Fire Over Drinking Water Contaminants The US Environmental Protection Agency has not taken adequate steps to assure the safety of public drinking water because of 'systemic limitations' and politicisation.
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Nanotechnology: Good Things in Small Packages Critics exaggerate the dangers. Boosters flog the benefits. Let's give nanotechnology a chance to develop before we start taking sides.
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Chemistry World January 5, 2011 Hayley Birch	Nanoparticles build up New research suggests that nanomaterials that are released into the environment could accumulate in food chains.
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Chemistry World April 27, 2015 Mark Peplow	An unfortunate oversight Transparent and effective third-party oversight is one of the surest ways of securing trust in an industry. Yet in the US, where chemicals are regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA, pronounced 'Tosca'), that oversight is sadly lacking.
Chemistry World May 20, 2011 Rebecca Trager	EPA delays boiler and incinerator emissions rules The US Environmental Protection Agency has indefinitely delayed rules governing emission of toxic air pollutants from boilers and certain solid waste incinerators at chemical plants and other major industrial facilities.
Chemistry World March 30, 2009 Rebecca Trager	EPA announces new chemical toxicity plan New regulations mean the agency will now rely less on animal testing to assess toxicity and risk, focusing instead on using advanced tools from fields like genomics, molecular biology and computational sciences.
Chemistry World October 1, 2008 Rebecca Trager	US to Overhaul Industrial Chemicals Inventory A plan by the US Environmental Protection Agency to overhaul its inventory of industrial chemicals could lead to a lot more paperwork for chemical firms, industry officials have warned.
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