Further to my earlier post on the latest NanoToxScare story, the Daily Telegraph has helpfully published a list of products that contain nanoparticles which neatly illustrates the need for risk assessment as it includes beer, aeroplanes and tennis rackets, all of which involve other risks than those posed by a few nanoparticles (and that’s before we start thinking about possible …
Where does it all come from?
Richard Jones at Soft Machines reports that Andrew Johnson, of the UK’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Wallingford estimates that “130 tonnes of nano-titanium dioxide a year is used in sunscreens in the UK” and probably most of this ends up in the water supply aftre being washed off in the shower. A couple of points struck me as …