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Panel Urges Comprehensive Study Of Nanotechnology Safety

From e360.yale.edu - January 29, 2012 5:32 PM

A U.S. scientific panel is calling for a systematic study of the growing use of nanomaterials in industry, saying little is known about the risk of the microscopic particles increasingly being used in everythingNanotech: The Unknown Risks

Nanotechnology, now used in everything from computers to toothpaste, is booming. But as Carole Bass reported in 2008, there were already rising concerns that its development was outpacing our understanding of how to use it safely.
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 The National Research Council (NRC), part of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, noted that the use of nanomaterials — measured on the scale of billionths of a meter — is growing rapidly, rising from $225 billion in nanotechnology-based products in 2009 to an estimated $3 trillion by 2015.

http://e360.yale.edu/digest/panel_urges_comprehensive_study_of_nanotechnology_safety/3306/

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The Tragic Mistake That Now Threatens 1 Out of Every 3 Bites You Eat

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The documentary film "Vanishing of the Bees" unveils the phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and the real causes of bee death all over the U.S."

The danger of accumulated pesticides in the environment and the lack of USA federal agency oversight in favor of manufacturers's studies without independent review is a major cause for concern.  90% of food we eat is treated with pesticides, over a billion pounds of these toxic chemicals are used annually on the huge agricultural western monocrop farms.

Before releasing these highly toxic chemicals into our environment, a responsible nation would ensure that independent interdisciplinary studies are carried out to determine affects on both our ecosystems AND human health.

 

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INDIA: ‘If farmers are the backbone of the economy, then it is fractured'

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GM crops undermining sustainable weed control and sustainable agriculture

From www.gmwatch.org - January 24, 2012 5:58 PM

This BioScience piece documents not only the current state of glyphosate resistant weeds, but also ties the development of genetically engineered herbicide resistant crops, especially 2,4-D and dicamba resistant crops, to the decline of sustainable weed management, and to the decline of sustainable agriculture more generally.

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