EFSA LAUNCHES NANOTECH PROBE AMIDST GROWING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FEARS
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Commission has told the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to investigate the risks of using nanotechnology in food and packaging amidst growing concern about potential health risks. These were raised earlier this year by the European Union's scientific committee on emerging and newly identified health risks, which warned current risk assessment systems for chemicals were not appropriate for nanoparticles. Contamination is a big concern here. Writing to EFSA, the Commission said their small "size...potentially reduces the ...
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