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A new UK-based study reveals that two hundred food manufacturing companies are already working on ways to insert nanotechnology into foods. No more details were given on why this is being done, nor how it would improve the marketability or shelf life of those foods, but it is an alarming revelation. Stay tuned to this site. We'll keep you posted on developments in this area.
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Two hundred companies are already working on inserting nanotechnology into food, posing "immense" risks to health, new research claims.
- The study estimates that use of the technology in food has created an industry, now worth more than £1bn, which will grow within six years to more than £10bn, with thousands of firms involved.
- Last week, Prince Charles, writing exclusively in The Independent on Sunday, warned that the technology, which uses microscopic particles, a million of which would fit on a pin head, could lead to "upsets" similar to the Thalidomide disaster, unless care were taken.
- Leading scientists and the Royal Society condemned him for the analogy, but today he is backed by a leading expert on the technology, Professor Gregor Wolbring, himself affected by the drug Thalidomide.
- Nanotechnology, which is set to revolutionise industry and everyday life, deals with particles so small the laws of physics no longer apply.
- The technology is already used to preserve foods, and boost flavour and nutritional values.
- Meanwhile, a report for the US Department of Agriculture, describing some of these applications, says that nanotechnology "has the potential to revolutionise agriculture and food systems".
- Professor Steve Jones, of University College London, called him "a classic woolly thinker", and Lord Winston, the fertility expert, said he had raised "spectres'' and "science scares".
- The Royal Society criticised the prince's comparison, since nanotechnology was "not a new drug".
- But Professor Wolbring, of the University of Calgary, Canada, who was born without legs after his mother took Thalidomide in pregnancy, called such criticism "stupidity".
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