WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, MICHAEL STROCK
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance yesterday (June 14th) for the regulation of nanotechnology, a field that has exploded since the government began to explicitly support nanotechnology research through the National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000. The aim of the draft guidance is to initiate a discussion with those involved in the development of nanomaterial, in order to establish safety standards without hampering innovation.
The draft guidance was written in accordance with two memos issued by the White House last week and in March, containing a set of principles for regulation. A main discussion point of the guidance is how nanomaterials should be defined. Nanomaterials are generally classified by a size of 1 to 100 nanometers in at least one dimension, ...
