FDA issues draft guidance on use of nanotechnology in food and food packaging

Nanotechnology Law and Business

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-155

  Tyler, Lynn C ^a  

^a Barnes and Thornburg   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAFT GUIDANCE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION'S; FOOD INDUSTRIES; FOOD PACKAGING; MACRO SCALE; MICRO-SCALES; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; NANOMATERIAL; NANOSCALE PARTICLES; REGULATORY STATUS; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PACKAGING MACHINES; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84873957908     PISSN: 15462080     EISSN: 1546203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. U.S. DEP'T OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, F.D.A., DRAFT GUIDANCE FOR INDUSTRY . . ., (2012), available at http://www.fda.gov/Food/ GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/GuidanceDocuments/ FoodIngredientsandPackaging/ucm300661.htm.
2. See generally GUIDANCE at 6-9.
3. GUIDANCE at 15.
4. GUIDANCE at 19.
5. EUROPEAN COMMISSION SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON EMERGING AND NEWLY IDENTIFIED HEALTH RISKS, RISK ASSESSMENT OF PRODUCTS OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES, at 56 (Jan. 19, 2009), available at http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph-risk/committees/04-scenihr/ docs/scenihr-o-023.pdf.
6. EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY, SCIENTIFIC OPINION: THE POTENTIAL RISKS ARISING FROM NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES ON FOOD AND FEED SAFETY, THE EFSA JOURNAL, 958, 18-39 (Feb. 10, 2009), available at http://www.efsa.europa.eu/de/ scdocs/doc/958.pdf.
7. GUIDANCE at 10.
8. THE EFSA JOURNAL 958, 2-39 (2009).
9. http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/-news/2012/06/25/ 12340321-fda-questions-whats-creeping-into-your-food-sunscreen (last visited June 29, 2012).
10. http://www.ilovephysics.com/2011/07/03/titanium-dioxide-nanoparticles- from-powdered-doughnuts/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVwzJEhMmD8&fmt= 22 (both last visited June 29, 2012).
11. GUIDANCE at 14.