{"id":9524,"date":"2013-12-20T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9524"},"modified":"2013-12-20T22:33:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T06:33:06","slug":"survey-reveals-regulatory-agencies-viewed-as-unprepared-for-nanotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/survey-reveals-regulatory-agencies-viewed-as-unprepared-for-nanotechnology","title":{"rendered":"Survey reveals regulatory agencies viewed as unprepared for nanotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">(<em>Nanowerk News<\/em>) Three stakeholder groups agree that regulators are not adequately prepared to manage the risks posed by nanotechnology, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal <em>PLOS One<\/em> (<a style=\"color: lightgreen;\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0080250\" target=\"new\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cExpert Views on Regulatory Preparedness for Managing the Risks of Nanotechnologies\u201d<\/a>).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">In a survey of nanoscientists and engineers, nano-environmental health and safety scientists, and regulators, researchers at the UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) and at the University of British Columbia found that those who perceive the risks posed by nanotechnology as \u201cnovel\u201d are more likely to believe that regulators are unprepared. Representatives of regulatory bodies themselves felt most strongly that this was the case. \u201cThe people responsible for regulation are the most skeptical about their ability to regulate,\u201d said CNS Director and co-author Barbara Herr Harthorn.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\u201cThe message is essentially,\u201d said first author Christian Beaudrie of the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, \u201cthe more that risks are seen as new, the less trust survey respondents have in regulatory mechanisms. That is, regulators don\u2019t have the tools to do the job adequately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology_news\/newsid=33782.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Nanowerk News) Three stakeholder groups agree that regulators are not adequately prepared to manage the risks posed by nanotechnology, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One (\u201cExpert Views on Regulatory Preparedness for Managing the Risks of Nanotechnologies\u201d). In a survey of nanoscientists and engineers, nano-environmental health and safety scientists, and regulators, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}