Joint Comments on NNI Environmental, Health and Safety Needs and Prioritization
Posted in Regulations on January 31, 2007
January 31, 2007
CTA jointly filed comments with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), United Steelworkers of America, and Sciencecorps, calling on the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) to urgently prioritize and formulate a comprehensive risk research plan for the environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks of nanotechnology. The organizations called on the NNI to make its top priorities the EHS risk research of: nanomaterial manufacturing and research worker health and safety; nanomaterial consumer products and consumer health and safety; and the environmental impacts of nanomaterials.
