NGOs Call For Moratorium On Nanotech-Enabled Cosmetics

FDA’s guidance to the personal-care industry regarding nanomaterial use is a step in the right direction, but ultimately fails to protect consumers from potentially hazardous nanotech applications in the pipeline and on the market already, Food & Water Watch says, proposing a moratorium on nanotech-containing cosmetics.

NGOs Food & Water Watch and Friends of the Earth seek a moratorium on cosmetics containing nanomaterials until the science is better understood and sufficient testing technology is available to affirm safety, the groups say in response to a recent FDA guidance.

In its July 24 comments, F&WW lauds the agency’s April guidance – titled “Safety of Nanomaterials in Cosmetic Products” –...

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