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Science 25 May 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5828, p. 1111
DOI: 10.1126/science.316.5828.1111b
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With nanomaterials already a part of 500 commercial products, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must make sure the particles are safe. That's the conclusion of a report released this week by former EPA assistant administrator J. Clarence Davies, now advising the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Davies urges Congress to allocate $50 million more a year for research on the health and environmental impacts of nanotech and revise the Toxic Substances Control Act. He also suggests a joint government-industry nanoscience research institute and that EPA launch its proposed voluntary program to collect nanomaterials information from companies.

"EPA needs to seriously consider the constructive and thoughtful changes that Davies puts forward in his report," says former EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus.




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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)