Nanotechnology

The next big (pesticide) thing and protecting farmworker health

One of the tragedies of new pesticide technologies is that the corporate imperative to maximize sales leads to a faster turning of the pesticide treadmill.

Nanotechnology-enabled genetically engineered RNA interference pesticides: Socioeconomic context, modes of action and risks

Watch a recording of a presentation delivered by IATP's Dr. Steve Suppan above titled "Nano-enabled RNAi based pesticides: Modes of Action, risks and regulation."

US and Canadian Groups Call for Ban on Face Masks Containing Toxic Nanomaterials

MINNEAPOLIS—Today, leading environmental and human health advocacy groups from the United States and Canada provided detailed evidence about face masks containing potentially toxic nanoscale materials in a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (

Engineered nanomaterials in masks claimed as protection against COVID-19

To read the full letter to the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency and U.S.

Democracy in US nanotechnology strategy

The U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) integrates the work of 20 federal agencies. As required by law, it develops a Strategic Plan to guide both policy and the spending of its budget, proposed at $1.723 billion for 2021.

[WATCH] Nano-pesticides: Can they be self-regulating?

Download Dr. Steve Suppan's presentation delivered on November 6, 2020 at XVII Seminanosoma (virtual seminar) translated into English here.

Nano-pesticides: Introduction to encapsulated products and frameworks for assessing their risks to environmental and human health

The following article was originally published in an eBook prepared as part of the November 4-6 2020 webinar organized by the Brazilian Network for Nanotechnology, Society and Environment (Renanosoma).

IATP Comment to National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on Toxicological and Physicochemical Data of Engineered Nanomaterials

Download a PDF of the comment here. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) NIOSH Docket Office

Future of U.S. federal nanotechnology: ‘safe by design’ product commercialization

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) held a stakeholders’ workshop on August 1-2 about its future, which must be reauthorized by Congress every four years. The NNI is an interagency and interdisciplinary hub for a dozen U.S.

Legalizing nanomaterials in EU food and feed products

An update to EFSA's 2011 Guidance synthesizes a broad array of scientific literature, but problematically suggests nanomaterials won't be subject to stringent enough mandatory rules.