Nano pesticide recall..

[undergroundpanther]

Nano pesticides WTF??

WASHINGTON— A major decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fine California technology company IOGEAR more than $200,000 for selling unregistered nano-pesticides is being applauded by David Rejeski, the director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN).

The IOGEAR products at issue are all listed in PEN’s consumer product inventory, which currently contains more than 600 manufacturer-identified nanotechnology products already in commerce.

What is this nano stuff?

Plastic imbued with clay nanoparticles helps make Miller Brewing Co. beer bottles less likely to break as well as improves how long the brew lasts in storage. Simply H's Toddler Health nutritional drink mix includes 300-nanometer (300 billionths of a meter) iron particles. And a wide range of cooking and cleaning items now employ nanosize silver particles to kill microbes.

Yet, the Washington, D.C.–based environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) reports that none of the more than 100 food or food-related products it identified that contain nanoparticles...

"Products created using nanotechnology have entered the food chain," says report author Ian Illuminato, FoE's health and environment lobbyist. "Preliminary studies indicate there is a serious risk…. We should know that it's safe before we put it in our food."
http://www.nanotechproject.org/news/archive/epa_issues_major_enforcement_action/

To date, there are few published industry, government or scientific studies on the health and environmental impacts of nanoparticles. Further complicating the matter is the fact that nanoparticles have been in the food supply for years. "Nanoparticles have been in food products for decades, we just never realized they were there," says physicist Andrew Maynard, chief science advisor to the Wilson Center project. "We need to better understand how nano can be benign in foods, but where the dangers are."

For example, it remains unclear whether nanoparticles used in food packaging might migrate or leach into food or beverages. And it is completely unknown what impact a wide variety of these nanoparticles might have on human health.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=do-nanoparticles-in-food-pose-health-risk
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3231210,00.html
FUCK!! Damn all the profiteering psychopathic pigs.

[Duer 157099]

1. Sounds to me like this is much ado about nothing

Just because "nanotechnology" is all the rage these days in the techno world, does not mean that suddenly very small particles have come into existence. Um, hello?

It's like as if, during the 50s/60s people got all freaked out about "atomic" stuff because of the bomb, and suddenly worried about atoms being in the food they eat.

Give me a break!

[MadAndy]

2. Ha. How long before we see sci fi movies about monsters spawned by exposure to nanoparticles?