Tag: nanotechnology
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FDA Announces Science Board Meeting
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that its Science Board will hold a public meeting on August 16, 2010, in Bethesda, Maryland. Tasked with advising officials on “specific complex and technical issues, as well as emerging issues within the scientific community in industry and academia,” the board keeps pace with “technical and scientific…
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ISO Nano-Product Labeling Standard with Implications for Food Industry on ANSI Webinar Agenda
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced a July 9, 2010, webinar to provide an overview of the current draft of an Organization for Standardization (ISO) document titled “Guidance on the labeling of manufactured nano-objects and products containing manufactured nano-objects.” According to ANSI, “this nano-labeling document will likely have broad implications for a number…
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ENVI Rejects Novel Food Provision Covering Foods Derived from Cloned Animals
The EU Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) has reportedly rejected a draft provision that sought to allow products from cloned animals and their descendants on the European market. ENVI considered the proposal as part of its efforts to update and simplify regulations pertaining to foods that “have not been consumed to…
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EPA’s New “Nanomaterials” Definition to Affect Pesticide Registrations
With a new working definition of “nanomaterials,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is apparently poised to launch new regulatory policies including those addressing the registration of pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). The definition, revealed during a PowerPoint® presentation at an April 29, 2010, Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee meeting, is as follows:…
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Draft Nanotech Policy Framework for California Scheduled for Discussion and Comment
The University of California-San Francisco Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment has developed draft policy recommendations to address potential health risks from nanomaterials and nanotechnology. When finalized, the document will be presented to California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to better inform the agency’s risk assessment recommendations. The draft will be…
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Science and Technology Advisors Assess Federal Nanotechnology Initiative
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has released a report to the president and Congress assessing the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), “which coordinates Federal research and development activities involving the manipulation of matter at scales smaller than 100 billionths of [a] meter.” The third in a decade-long series of assessments, the report…
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FSA to Create Nanotechnology Research Registry
The U.K. Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board has reportedly agreed to maintain a confidential database of food industry research into nanotechnology, as well as a public registry of food and food packaging products that contain both approved nanomaterials and materials appearing to have nanoscale elements. “The way that we respond in terms of nanotechnology is…
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MEPs Put the Brakes on Traffic-Light Labeling
The European Parliament’s Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) has apparently issued a legislative report that recommends several changes to EU food labeling laws, but stops short of proposing a uniform “traffic light” system. After considering more than 800 amendments to draft legislation, ENVI approved “minor changes to existing rules on information…