The food industry's increasing use of nanotechnology in ingredients, additives and packaging has prompted two new reports calling for better consumer protection.YIPES!
The reports, one a review led by UK government scientists and the other by an international lobby group, add to growing calls for better safety assessment and regulation of nanotechnology in food.
Complicating the issue is debate about which sized particles can cross into the body's cells and whether the commonly used definition of nanotechnology is adequate.
Scientists writing in the latest issue of the journal Food Additives and Contaminants say the food industry, including Australia's, is already using some nanotechnology, and safety research is needed urgently.
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1 comment:
I've read horror novels involving nanotechnology. Maybe there's no substance to what those books say, but I do feel that we're rushing into nanotechnology without enough research.
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