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Impacts Interesting Reports

There are now many, many reports addressing nano-related impacts. This is my selection of the best.

FDA

• US Food and Drug Administration Nanotechnology Taskforce (July 2007)

Demos

• M. Kearnes, P. Macnaghten and J. Wilsdon, Governing at the nanoscale - people, policies and emerging technologies

Risk Assessment

• Nano Risk Framework (Environmental Defense and du Pont)
  “Nanotechnology and the need for risk governance”, O. Renn and M. Roco, J. Nanoparticle Research 8 153 (2006)

UK Royal Society

• International dialogue on safety of manufactured nanomaterials (April 2007)
  
• An Uncertain Business – the technical, social and commercial challenges of nanotechnology (Oct 2006)
• Nanoscience and nanotechnologies: opportunities and uncertainties (2004 – still an important landmark document
• "Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies: A Review of Government's Progress on his Policy Commitments" (March 2007)

New Zealand

• NZ Nanotechnology Roadmap (December 2006)

Safety

• A. Maynard et al "Safe Handling of Nanotechnology"  Nature 444, 267
• J. Sass, Natural Resources Defense Council, "Nanotechnology’s Invisible Threat: Small Science, Big Consequences" (2007)