EPA awards $4M to study safety of nano

Nov. 15, 2004 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given $4 million to 12 universities to study the potential health and environmental risks of nanomaterials. The grants, awarded through the EPA’s Science to Achieve Results research program, will focus on manufactured nanomaterials and their potential effects on health and the environment, as well as the fate and transport of nanomaterials in the environment.

Although the EPA said in an advisory that nanoscale products and processes could lead to advances in environmental protection, it also cited the potential of human and environmental exposure from waste streams or other pathways.

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