Food Safety Advocates File First-Ever Nanotech Suit Against FDA

Food safety advocacy groups have filed the first-ever lawsuit urging the government to regulate the potential health and safety risks of nanotechnology, requesting the court force the Food and Drug Administration to answer their six-year-old citizen petition demanding FDA start regulating the use of unlabeled nanomaterials in consumer products. The groups said that they were propelled to pursue further legal action by the growing number of scientific reports calling for more regulation of the use of nanotechnology in such products. The lawsuit is led by the International Center for Technology