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EPA Cracks Down on Nano-Filter Manufacturer
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(Dec. 16) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has cracked down on a California company that advertised that its "Nano Silver Pre-Filter" has the ability to control more than 650 types of bacteria. The EPA fined the Monterey Park, Calif.-based Kinetic Solutions Inc. $82,400 for allegedly "selling unregistered and misbranded pesticides and making unproven claims about their effectiveness." The nano silver particles used in the filters, which are sold under the Rabbit Air brand name, are considered pesticides. The EPA's action is one of the first against claims by makers of products using ...
EPA May Give 1st Approval of Nanosilver for Fabrics
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- A Swiss chemical producer may soon be the first company to receive approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use nanosilver to make clothing smell better, stay cleaner and destroy germs. However, health scientists say the nanoparticles will wash out with the rinse water and could cause unknown environmental and health problems downstream. The EPA said that it may issue "conditional approval" to HeiQ Materials AG, a producer of nanosized additives, for the use of a nanosilver pesticide as a new active ingredient in fabrics. Jennie Hills, Getty Images Nanotech ...
How Safe Are Cosmetics? New Bill Wants to Find Out
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(July 21) -- Most Americans use about 10 personal care products each day. The toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, baby powder and other things that we routinely douse or slather on our bodies expose us to at least 100 different chemicals. Many of these, public health experts say, have been linked to adverse health effects like cancer, birth defects and learning disabilities. There is nothing that the Food and Drug Administration can legally do about it. But that may begin to change as two Democratic lawmakers -- Reps. Jan Schakowsky from Illinois and Edward Markey from Massachusetts -- ...
More Bad News About Sunscreens: Nanoparticles
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(June 2) -- As millions of us who play and work under the bright sun dutifully slather our bare skin with creams, oils and sprays, consumer safety activists continue to blast the government for failing to ensure the safety of these sunscreens. The latest target of concern is the use by sunscreen manufacturers of nanosized particles of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. A new report based on several preliminary studies says these atom-sized additives have the potential to cause serious harm. That follows last week's report that the Food and Drug Administration has known for a decade that ...
EPA Moves to Close Key Chemical Safety Loophole
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(May 28) -- After years of allowing corporations to withhold vital safety information, the Environmental Protection Agency screamed "stop" on Thursday. In the Federal Register, the agency said it will no longer permit the obstruction of safety evaluations by allowing firms to hide behind age-old claims of business secrecy. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson had told Congress earlier this year that the heavily lobbied for "confidential business information" protection was keeping the agency's risk assessors from obtaining vital health and safety data on chemical substances awaiting approval. ...
Scientists Oppose Nano-Dispersant for Gulf
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(May 28) -- The massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has already hemorrhaged anywhere from 18 million to 40 million gallons of oil into the water, leaving federal and state emergency response officials desperate for any way to capture the spreading raw crude and protect the U.S. coastline. But this week, scientists in the U.S., Canada, South America and elsewhere pleaded with the government not to approve one option: a dispersant that contains unidentified and possibly untested nanoparticles. Seventeen environmental, public health advocacy and research organizations wrote a letter to EPA ...
Nanoparticles Block UV Rays and Stop Mold, but 'the Environment Is the Guinea Pig'
By Sheila Kaplan - Politics DailySeated in a crowded conference center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., last fall, some 50 chemical industry scientists, university researchers, consumer advocates, government regulators and this reporter pored through the known safety data on nanoscale titanium dioxide, (abbreviated as nano-TiO2). It is a chemical commonly used in sunscreens, cosmetics and food packaging. While these tiny compounds are assisting "mold prevention" and "interfering with UV reflection," this advisory group considered what unanticipated impact the man-made microscopic compounds might also be having on the health ...
List: Products Containing Nanosilver
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- The list of products containing nanosilver particles is long, varied and growing. What's listed below came from the Internet or a continuously updated Web site of consumer nano products complied by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. ALSO SEE: Experts Explore Risks of Nanotechnology in Our Clothes Tracking nano products is difficult because they are almost always packaged under numerous brand names and current labeling regulations do not require that the nano material be listed as an ingredient or component. • ...
Experts Explore Risks of Nanotechnology in Clothes
By Andrew Schneider - AOL News(Dec. 4) -- Tiny particles so small that at least a million of them can fit on a pinhead are keeping your bras, panties, socks and children's clothing smelling sweet. But are these silver nanoparticles safe? An Environmental Protection Agency science panel opened a four-day hearing Tuesday in Washington, examining the hazards associated with nanosilver, an odor-fighting, bacteria-killing material used in thousands of clothing items. And Swiss scientists this week will release what they say is the first comprehensive study on the escape of silver nanoparticles from clothing to rivers, streams ...
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