Is Nanotech Regulation a State Issue?

Nah, it belongs to the U.N.

agreed. along with gmo's

I can see how ultimately it may be a world wide issue and possibly proper for the UN to be involved with. I wonder what department of the UN would have effective protocals? (systems). Do we need to reinvent the wheel here? Don't Labs have standard operating procedures internationally recognized within the scientific community? What's really new here?

It does no harm for MA, to establish procedures that may address what is new, and enforce tried and true organizational and regulatory procedures to that new concern.

Course there were rules and regulations about Chemical Plants, or Atomic Energy Power Plants when Chernobyl, or Bhopal occurred.

Sans effective action on the part of the UN, about most anything, the back up is international law.

What you do want to do is inhibit what amounts to Above Ground Nuclear Bomb Testing, which did happen before it was recognized as really a bad thing.

There are some organizations that operate independent of the UN effectively.

It's not like I don't love the idea, and official ideals of the UN, it is just that there are significant flaws these days in the realities of it.