Consumer Effort To Unmask Nanotech Users Begs Question: Why Wear Masks?
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
A Consumers Union report being billed as an exposé of sunscreens that are marketed as nanotech-free but actually contain nanoparticles may signal a need not for FDA's intervention but for industry to take the lead in educating consumers on nanotechnology
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