Guest guest Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Tony: Do you have any feed back on this? From a news letter that I get. Tell EPA to regulate untested and unlabeled nano-silver pesticide products! Nano-silver is a product of nanotechnology, a powerful new platform technology for taking apart and reconstructing nature at the atomic and molecular level. Increasingly manufacturers are infusing a large and diverse number of consumer products with nanoparticle silver ("nano-silver") for its enhanced "germ killing" abilities. Already at least 300 products containing nano-silver are on market shelves, ranging from household appliances and cleaners to clothing, cutlery, and children’s toys, to personal care products, packaging and coated electronics. Yet scientists agree that nanoparticles are fundamentally different substances from the larger scale cousins and that nanomaterials can create new and unique health and environmental risks that need new forms of safety testing. While the nanotech market moves ahead largely unabated, as a recent National Research Council study concluded, regulators remains woefully behind the curve. Nano-silver is now the most common commercialized nano-material, but it has yet to undergo analysis by any U.S. regulatory agency of its potential human health and environmental impacts. Nano-silver may be highly destructive to natural environments and raises serious human health concerns. Studies have shown that nano-silver can harm fish and aquatic ecosystems, potentially interfere with beneficial bacteria in our bodies and the environment and encourage the development of more virulent harmful bacteria. The products are also misleadingly sold using very broad and unapproved health claims about the power of their nano-silver ingredients, such as: “eliminates 99% of bacteria” or “kills approximately 650 kinds of harmful germs and viruses.” In May 2008 the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of a coalition of public interest organizations calling on EPA to regulate nano-silver products as pesticides. The legal petition demands EPA assess the safety of these materials to the public and the environment before permitting commercialization. The petition also calls on the agency to require safety data from manufacturers and require mandatory and approved labeling. Finally, the petition calls on the agency to stop the sale of those nano-silver products currently on market until the agency properly assesses their impacts. EPA has opened a public comment period on the ICTA/CFS petition and the nano-silver issue. With at least 300 consumer products containing nano-silver already on the market, many of them aimed at children, it is time for EPA to do its job and regulate nano-silver products as new pesticides. Comments are being accepted until January 20th – please send your comment today urging EPA to grant the ICTA/CFS petition and to regulate nano-silver products as pesticides! Send a letter to the following decision maker(s): Docket No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650 awareness.investigation.knowledge.potential.motivation.action.patience.results Duke Dallas - Texas info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Looks to me as another method of waging war on natural healing supplements. The statements in this article are misleading and false.oleander soup , Duke Stone <dukesdeals wrote:>> Tony:> Do you have any feed back on this? From a news letter that I get.> > Tell EPA to regulate untested and unlabeled nano-silver pesticide products! > > > Nano-silver is a product of nanotechnology, a powerful new platform technology for taking apart and reconstructing nature at the atomic and molecular level. Increasingly manufacturers are infusing a large and diverse number of consumer products with nanoparticle silver ("nano-silver") for its enhanced "germ killing" abilities. Already at least 300 products containing nano-silver are on market shelves, ranging from household appliances and cleaners to clothing, cutlery, and children's toys, to personal care products, packaging and coated electronics. Yet scientists agree that nanoparticles are fundamentally different substances from the larger scale cousins and that nanomaterials can create new and unique health and environmental risks that need new forms of safety testing. > While the nanotech market moves ahead largely unabated, as a recent National Research Council study concluded, regulators remains woefully behind the curve. Nano-silver is now the most common commercialized nano-material, but it has yet to undergo analysis by any U.S. regulatory agency of its potential human health and environmental impacts. Nano-silver may be highly destructive to natural environments and raises serious human health concerns. Studies have shown that nano-silver can harm fish and aquatic ecosystems, potentially interfere with beneficial bacteria in our bodies and the environment and encourage the development of more virulent harmful bacteria. The products are also misleadingly sold using very broad and unapproved health claims about the power of their nano-silver ingredients, such as: "eliminates 99% of bacteria" or "kills approximately 650 kinds of harmful germs and viruses."> In May 2008 the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of a coalition of public interest organizations calling on EPA to regulate nano-silver products as pesticides. The legal petition demands EPA assess the safety of these materials to the public and the environment before permitting commercialization. The petition also calls on the agency to require safety data from manufacturers and require mandatory and approved labeling. Finally, the petition calls on the agency to stop the sale of those nano-silver products currently on market until the agency properly assesses their impacts.> EPA has opened a public comment period on the ICTA/CFS petition and the nano-silver issue. With at least 300 consumer products containing nano-silver already on the market, many of them aimed at children, it is time for EPA to do its job and regulate nano-silver products as new pesticides. > Comments are being accepted until January 20th – please send your comment today urging EPA to grant the ICTA/CFS petition and to regulate nano-silver products as pesticides!> > > > > Send a letter to the following decision maker(s): > Docket No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > awareness.investigation.knowledge.potential.motivation.action.patience.results > > Duke Dallas - Texas> info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Sorry Duke, didn't notice that this was directed to Tony. I am sure he will be along to expound.oleander soup , Duke Stone <dukesdeals wrote:>> Tony:> Do you have any feed back on this? From a news letter that I get.> > Tell EPA to regulate untested and unlabeled nano-silver pesticide products! > > > Nano-silver is a product of nanotechnology, a powerful new platform technology for taking apart and reconstructing nature at the atomic and molecular level. Increasingly manufacturers are infusing a large and diverse number of consumer products with nanoparticle silver ("nano-silver") for its enhanced "germ killing" abilities. Already at least 300 products containing nano-silver are on market shelves, ranging from household appliances and cleaners to clothing, cutlery, and children's toys, to personal care products, packaging and coated electronics. Yet scientists agree that nanoparticles are fundamentally different substances from the larger scale cousins and that nanomaterials can create new and unique health and environmental risks that need new forms of safety testing. > While the nanotech market moves ahead largely unabated, as a recent National Research Council study concluded, regulators remains woefully behind the curve. Nano-silver is now the most common commercialized nano-material, but it has yet to undergo analysis by any U.S. regulatory agency of its potential human health and environmental impacts. Nano-silver may be highly destructive to natural environments and raises serious human health concerns. Studies have shown that nano-silver can harm fish and aquatic ecosystems, potentially interfere with beneficial bacteria in our bodies and the environment and encourage the development of more virulent harmful bacteria. The products are also misleadingly sold using very broad and unapproved health claims about the power of their nano-silver ingredients, such as: "eliminates 99% of bacteria" or "kills approximately 650 kinds of harmful germs and viruses."> In May 2008 the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on behalf of a coalition of public interest organizations calling on EPA to regulate nano-silver products as pesticides. The legal petition demands EPA assess the safety of these materials to the public and the environment before permitting commercialization. The petition also calls on the agency to require safety data from manufacturers and require mandatory and approved labeling. Finally, the petition calls on the agency to stop the sale of those nano-silver products currently on market until the agency properly assesses their impacts.> EPA has opened a public comment period on the ICTA/CFS petition and the nano-silver issue. With at least 300 consumer products containing nano-silver already on the market, many of them aimed at children, it is time for EPA to do its job and regulate nano-silver products as new pesticides. > Comments are being accepted until January 20th – please send your comment today urging EPA to grant the ICTA/CFS petition and to regulate nano-silver products as pesticides!> > > > > Send a letter to the following decision maker(s): > Docket No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0650 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > awareness.investigation.knowledge.potential.motivation.action.patience.results > > Duke Dallas - Texas> info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 I think it is utter hogwash and have no doubt that there are mainstream elements behind the rediculous idea of having the EPA regulate nano-silver as PESTICIDES. With decades of use by millions of people there have been absolutely no documented reports of harm caused by properly made and administered colloidal silver. Even improperly made and contaminated ionic silver products have still produced no evidence of harm other than a small handful of the rare and mostly cosmetic skin condition known as Argyria. I agree that it would be a good idea in general to test nano-products for safety, but regulation would likely just play right into the hands of the mainstream elements who control our regulatory agencies and who view silver as a huge threat to the billions of dollars of profits from their patented, hugely expensive, often less effective and far less safe lab created products. As far as I am concerned, it is yet another effort by the same pro-CODEX folks who would eliminate our access to most supplements and approve only a handful of vitamins, minerals and other items at tightly regulated dosages that are far less than therapeutic. The agents of Big Pharma have made an artform of presenting regulations that appear logical on the surface but are intended to restrict our health freedoms and force us into their system of illness managed for profits. And profits is the bottom line - safety and true health care be damned! When the government gets around to doing a better job of regulating pharmaceuticals which kill over 100,000 people in year in properly prescribed and administered dosages and then decides to test the over 100,000 chemical compounds which industry spews and spills into our water, air, soil and food supply which have NEVER BEEN TESTED FOR SAFETY singly or in combination, then maybe they might have a logical reason to look at products like silver and other natural supplements which seldom harm and almost never kill anyone. oleander soup , Duke Stone <dukesdeals wrote:>> Tony:> Do you have any feed back on this? From a news letter that I get.> > Tell EPA to regulate untested and unlabeled nano-silver pesticide products! > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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