Local Gov'ts Move on Nanotech

Generally when govenment does anything, it is motivated by those in power wishing to control the market share of their existing product or infiltrate potention competitition so as to gain control of any future competition as it progresses towards production and market share. They always used safety and health as reasons for inacting such legislation and seldom really monitor these needed aspects of production. Just as many people, on a percentage basis, are getting sick or dying in the U.S. from food poisoning today a before there was a FDA. However we pay much higher taxes to pay for this administration which makes it more difficult to profit from food production. Food is all about freshness and with high taxes it creates a greater incentive to push the limits of spoilage.

I think it was Washington that stated, government is force, like fire it it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Forced Regulatory requirements create proprietary disclosures of pending products/materials . That would be what I was interested in if I had the money to invest in portential new products coming to the market, especially if they were potential competitors to my products(s). An it is the monied class which controls all legislation.

I think that where a reasoned analysis has determined there is a need for controls, regulatory legislation may be appropriate. I also think this approach is seldom applied to the legislative process. But if the industry cannot or will not monitor itself, it leaves itself open to imposed regulations.

The problem it's a fiction. What's the difference in nanomaterials, micromaterials or huge materials, the size. Of course there are some characteristics that may be different according to scale, but to put "nanomaterials" in a single bag is as stupid as to make it with electric technology (you may result electrocuted).

Nanotechnology has to be controlled as any other technology and is the responsibility of researchers to look not only to the benefits but also to the threats/dangers its use may imply before to put it into service.

From sometime ago there are many voices blaming against nanotechnology without knowing what it is. It seems "nanotechnology" is a word that sounds well to journalists and you know: "Good news are no news".

Unfortunately politicians look just to their image and if something makes too much noise in the media they answer immediately with a law without knowing what is the problem nor the solution.

Sh..!! Another dark day

Kind regards

Local government regulation of nano materials makes as much sense a having each local government develop its own TSCA regulations.