Rhitu Chatterjee
Environ. Sci. Technol., Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/es900041e
Publication Date (Web): January 21, 2009
Copyright © 2009 American Chemical Society
On September 24, 2008, the U.S. insurance company Continental Western Group (CWG) issued a statement noting that it would exclude nanotubes and nanotechnology from its coverage. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es900041e?cookieSet=1
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PhD Thesis Regulation and Risk Assessment of Nanomaterials — Too Little, Too Late?” by Steffen Foss Hansen, Ph.D. candidate at the Technical University of Denmark’s Department of Environmental Engineering
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The provisions for nanomaterials in the recast of the EU Cosmetics Directive have come in for criticism from campaigners.
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New in the Int J of Disability, Community and Rehabilitation (IJDCR)
An IJDCR Special Issue on Nanotechnology, Disability, Community and Rehabilitation edited by Gregor Wolbring,
Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies Program, Dept of Community
Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada
Articles:
Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue, by Gregor Wolbring
If Nanotechnology Were a Magic Wand What Obligations Would it Bring? Or:
The Right to Enhance Versus the Right to Morphological Freedom, by Heather
Bradshaw
Optimization of Human Capacities and the Representation of the Nanoscale
Body, by Michele Robitaille
Nanotechnology: Changing the Disability Paradigm, by Laura Cabrera
The journal welcomes submissions on a continuous basis that focus on nanoscale and nanoscale-enabled science and technology as it impacts on disabled people and the broader community and the role of rehabilitation professionals, family members and others.
Canadian Standards Association would like to inform you that we are establishing a new Nanotechnology in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Technical Committee for the adoption/adaptation of international ISO/IEC nanotechnology standards into National Standards of Canada. We have attached the Call for Participants which will provide you with information about this project. If you or a member of your organization is interested in applying to be a member of this new Technical Committee, please submit your application to the Project Manager Ron Meyers at: ron.meyers@csa.ca.
Please feel free to pass this message along to your colleagues who may be interested in this standards activity. The deadline for submitting applications is March 31st, 2009. Please contact me if you have any questions.
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Davorah Katz
Project Assistant
Occupational Health and Safety/Mechanical Industrial Equipment Safety
Canadian Standards Association
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Mississauga, ON L4W 5N6
Email: Davorah.Katz@csa.ca
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