New Review Questions Current Nanotechnology Risk
August 26, 2015
(Nanowerk) – One common way of deciding whether and how nanomaterials should be regulated is to conduct a risk assessment. This involves calculating the risk a substance or activity poses based on the associated hazards or dangers and the level of exposure to people or the environment. However, our recent review (“Risk Analysis of Nanomaterials: Exposing Nanotechnology’s Naked Emperor”) found some serious shortcomings of the risk assessment process for determining the safety of nanomaterials. We have argued that these shortcomings are so significant that risk assessment is effectively a naked emperor.