by Andrew Maynard | Jul 17, 2014 | Technology Innovation
What are the risks of nanoparticles in sunscreens? The New York Times has just posted an “Ask Well” article today by Deborah Blum answering the questions What are the risks from nanoparticles of titanium in sunscreens? and I am curious about the dangers of...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 12, 2014 | Nanotechnology, Risk
Nanoparticles in food products Over the past couple of years a number of articles have been posted claiming that we’re eating more food products containing nanoparticles than we know (remember this piece from a couple of weeks ago?). One of the latest...
by Andrew Maynard | Jun 7, 2014 | Health
Recently the American publication Mother Jones published an article on the dangers of food laced with tiny metal oxide particles. The article, however, is laced with errors and misinformation. The source material for the article came from a report by the environmental...
