You are hereRegulation
Regulation
The NanoEthicsBank collects examples of laws governing the use of nanomaterials, as well as publications outlining how developments in the regulation of engineered nanomaterials is influencing their use in manufacturing and in consumer products. Below is a list of government agency websites and seminal reports discussing the regulation of nanotechnologies both in the U.S. and internationally.
United States
EPA – Control of Nanomaterials Under the Toxic Substances Control Act
This page summarizes the latest developments of how the Toxic Substances Control Act is being applied to engineered nanomaterials.
Food and Drug Administration- Nanotechnology
This web page summarizes some of the FDA’s main activities in the field of nanotechnology, including the Nanotechnology Task Force report from July 2007. Recent news from all major U.S. government agencies can also be found in the Federal Register (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/) by doing a keyword search.
Europe
European Commission - Nanomaterials and REACH
This website from the European Commission's Directorate General for for Enterprise and Industry gives an overview of how REACH regulations apply to nanomaterials, and provides links to key publications on this topic.
REACH and the Regulation of Nanotechnology by Bryan Ward and Sarah S. Harley.
This article published in the December 2009 SafeNano Newsletter, discusses how the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation relates to manufactured nanoscale materials, and includes a list of further resources.
Worldwide
Nanotech Regulatory Document Archive
The Nanotech Regulatory Document Archive is a free, searchable database of governmental documents from around the world relating to nanotechnology regulation.
Mapping Study on Regulation and Governance of Nanotechnologies
In January 2009, the FramingNano project, funded under the EU’s FP 7 science and technology program, published this report which summarizes how countries around the world are working to understand and regulate the health, safety, and environmental effects and ethical and societal effects of nanotechnology. The report includes a series of appendixes that give a detailed summary of research initiatives, legislation, national strategies, and guidance documents developed by European nations, as well as the U.S., China, Japan, and Australia.
- Login to post comments
Actress Rita Wilson named editor of 'Huff/Post 40'
AP – In this May 9, 2011 photo, actress Rita Wilson arrives at The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' 21st …
By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen, Ap Entertainment Writer – Thu Jun 16, 2:41 pm ET
LOS ANGELES – The Huffington Post is launching a new site aimed at the baby boomer generation, and Rita Wilson will direct its vision and content.
AOL Huffington Post Media Group President and Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington said Thursday that the actress and producer will be editor-at-large of "Huff/Post 40," which is set to launch in August. She says Wilson even came up with the name of the new site.
Huffington said in an interview that the new site is designed to appeal to men and women over 40 and it will be "both about news and about people sharing their own experiences about that stage in life."
She credited her and Wilson's shared Greek heritage for setting them up to value aging as a process that brings wisdom and new possibilities.
The 54-year-old Wilson, who is married to Tom Hanks, has acted in movies, on television and on Broadway. She has also written stories on style and health for O, The Oprah Magazine and Harper's Bazaar, where she has been a contributing editor since 2006.
Wilson made good on a lifelong dream to perform on Broadway at age 49, Huffington said. That drive,bjd dolls, and Wilson's sense of humor, is what makes her the "perfect godmother" for the new site.
"She's always following her own passions and making things happen, so I think she's a great role model," Huffington said.
The HuffPo founder said she wasn't concerned about Wilson's limited experience in journalism, calling the new editor-at-large "a wonderful writer herself and she has a clear sense of what the theme of the site will be." She said they are now working to fill other top editorial positions for the new site.
"Huff/Post 40" will be uplifting and interactive, Huffington said.
"It's important to cover this with a sense of joy about this age ... that's another thing that's often missing from the writing about this stage of life," she said. "You worry about approval less; you're more clear about who you are — all those things are so liberating. It's a very liberating time of life, I say as I turn 60...
"It's an age where you can look less at the past and more into the future."
Huffington is also looking into the future as she continues to expand her media empire with AOL. She's developing Huffington Post France; Huffington Post UK launches July 6 and Huffington Post Canada went live last month.