New Developments in Nanotechnology: Recent Study is First to Suggest Death from Exposure to Nanoparticles
Publication Date: September 11, 2009
The warnings about adverse human health effects from exposure to engineered nanomaterials (EN) began several years ago. It gained popular momentum with press reports in 2006 that a cleaning product called "Nano Magic" had caused respiratory problems for dozens of German consumers. Turned out "Nano Magic" had no nano.
Other reports, published in the peer-reviewed literature, sounded their own alarms, equating, for example, the effects from exposure to carbon nanotubes with the effects from asbestos exposure. However, none of these studies involved humans; they were animal and in vitro studies. In other words, problems were found in mice and cells in petri dishes, not in people.1
But a recent study out of China has changed all that—sort of.
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