Nano Consumer products

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Nano Consumer products

• Show and Tell
• (Its just not hydrophobic surfaces and Titanium
  dioxide
• but Ill show them anyway)

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Why Nano and consumer products?

• considerable increase in nano in consumer
  products that have both Great potential but also
  risk
• From david sittenfeld, Museum of science,
• Nano and consumer prodcts demo
• http//www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consume
  r/

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Nano Consumer websites

• Woodrow Wilson center www.nanotechproject.org
• Nanotechnology in City Environments Database from
  ASU Center for Nanotechnology in society
  Nice.Asu.edu
• Nano Supermarket www.nanosupermarket.org
• Nano and Me nanoandme.org

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Finding nano on amazon.com

• Easy if its explicitly labeled!
• 131,000 in all (includes ipods and books)
• with ipod and book its 57,8xx
• Nano in Amazon 2048 hits (home and kitchen)
• Nanotechnology 3,441 (-books ipod)

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Nano and consumer protections

• Europe
• In November 2009, the European Union passed a
  law that will soon force manufacturers of
  cosmetics to state on the label if their products
  contain nanoparticles.
• Goes in effect july 2013
• The Guardian, March 30, 2012 A users guide to
  nanotechnology
• EU cosmetic regulation 1223/2009

• United states
• U.S. law does not subject cosmetic products and
  ingredients to premarket approval by FDA (with
  the exception of color additives that are not
  intended for use as coal-tar hair dyes).
• Rather, firms and individuals who market
  cosmetics have a legal responsibility to make
  sure their products and ingredients, including
  nanoscale materials, are safe under labeled or
  customary conditions of use, and that they are
  properly labeled. http//www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/Pr
  oductandIngredientSafety/SelectedCosmeticIngredien
  ts/ucm209177.htm

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Nanosilver Where isnt it used?

• Amazon 2730 hits for nanosilver (-ipod book)
• Just look for silver in products that normally
  dont have metal in it!

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Nanosilver Where isnt it used?
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Cosmetics

• Lots of nano gold!
• Lots of unlabeled products! (unless you go to
  europe, maybe)
• Nanosomes/nanocapsules

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Nano coatings!

• Very popular
• Engine coatings
• Anti-grafiti
• Super-hydrophobic Landscapes vs applications

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Nano and food

• Plugging my Nano and food brown bag in November!
• Nano silver tuperware/Packaging materials
• Much like cosmetics, hard to find
• Nano nutrition
• Now for a demonstration!