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| Opportunities and Risks of Nanotechnologies | |
| Source: Allianz group and OECD – Publication date: June 2005 | |
 | The Allianz Group and the OECD have published a study on the opportunities and risks of nanotechnology. The insurer calls for diligent risk management to support the industrial use of nanotechnology. |
| Out of the Laboratory and on to our Plates: Nanotechnology in Food and Agriculture | |
| Source: Friends of the Earth – Publication date: March 2008 | |
 | This Friends of the Earth's report from March 2008 finds that untested nanotechnology is being used in more than 100 food products, food packaging and contact materials currently on the shelf, without warning or FDA testing. |
| Overview and Comparison of Conventional and Nano-Based Water Treatment Technologies | |
| Source: Meridian Institute – Publication date: October 2006 | |
 | This paper is a supplement to the "Nanotechnology, Water, and Development" paper commissioned by Meridian's ongoing Global Dialogue on Nanotechnology and the Poor: Opportunities and Risks (GDNP). Specifically, this paper responds to numerous requests for a comprehensive document that facilitates comparisons of conventional and nanotechnology-based water treatment devices. |
| Principles for characterizing the potential human health effects from exposure to nanomaterials | |
| Source: Particle and Fibre Toxicology – Publication date: October 2005 | |
 | The rapid proliferation of many different engineered nanomaterials presents a dilemma to regulators regarding hazard identification. The International Life Sciences Institute Research Foundation/Risk Science Institute convened an expert working group to develop a screening strategy for the hazard identification of engineered nanomaterials. The working group report presents the elements of a screening strategy rather than a detailed testing protocol. |
| Productive Nanosystems - A Technology Roadmap | |
| Source: e-drexler.com – Publication date: December 2007 | |
 | Atomically precise technologies (APT) hold the potential to meet many of the greatest global challenges, bringing revolutions in science, medicine, energy, and industry. This technology roadmap points the way for strategic research initiatives to deliver on this promise. |
| Productive Nanosystems: the physics of molecular fabrication | |
| Source: IOP journal Physics Education – Publication date: July 2005 | |
 | A quick introduction to productive nanosystems. By K. Eric Drexler, published in Physics Education. It gets technical, but even the less technical reader can get quite a bit out of it, especially the illustrations. |
| Progress Toward Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace | |
| Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) – Publication date: June 2007 | |
 | This document is a report of the progress of the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center (NTRC) since its inception in 2004 through 2006. Using only internally redirected resources, the NTRC has begun to make contributions to all the steps in the continuum from hazard identification to risk management. |
| Protecting the Nanotechnology Workforce | |
| Source: NIOSH – Publication date: December 2013 | |
 | This NIOSH Nanotechnology Research and Guidance Strategic Plan is the roadmap being used to advance basic understanding of the toxicology and workplace exposures involved so that appropriate risk management practices can be implemented during discovery, development, and commercialization of engineered nanomaterials. |
| Public Perceptions about Nanotechnology | |
| Source: Federal Institute for Risk Assessment – Publication date: January 2009 | |
 | The aim of the analysis of public perceptions of nanotechnology was to describe the impact factors for risk communication in the new risk area of nanotechnology. A basic qualitative-psychological study in conjunction with a representative population survey of the perceptions of nanotechnology aimed to provide insight into the factors which influence consumer perceptions, the dynamics of importance in the field of nanotechnology and the direction in which public opinion on nanotechnology can move. |
| Public Reactions to Nanotechnology in Switzerland | |
| Source: TA Swiss – Publication date: November 2006 | |
 | The final report from TA Swiss' (Switzerland's Center for Technology Assessment) project on recording public opinion towards nanotechnologies. |