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"NANOPARTICLES Nanoparticles are tiny chemicals that are increasingly being used by cosmetic manufacturers as penetration enhancers because nanoparticles easily pass through the body's membranes and can reach all parts of our body Unfortunately this also means that they may accumulate or override our normal control systems that manage our complex biochemistry, with unidentified health effects." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Even with products marketed as containing only "natural" ingredients, you will need to read the labels carefully to detect nanoparticles, if they are identified on the label at all. Caribbean Blue Natural Basics, for example, is advertised as a "100% all-natural sunscreen formula" that contains "natural zinc oxide in a new patented transparent form" to prevent skin whitening. When I phoned the manufacturers to inquire about the new transparent form of zinc oxide in the formula (called "microfine" in the ingredient list), I was told this language referred to a nanoparticle ingredient." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "By 2004, two dozen toxicology publications had reported that nanoparticles pose unique and unpredictable risks (13)). While titanium oxide and zinc oxide are harmless and beneficial as topical sunblock agents, having those chemicals distributed more deeply throughout our bodies may create unknown health risks." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "A perceptive article about nanotechnology in The Economist magazine (November 22, 2007) summarized the health concerns associated with their use this way: "Research on animals suggests that nanoparticles can even evade some of the body's natural defence systems and accumulate in the brain, cells, blood and nerves. Studies show there is the potential for such materials to reach the lung and cause inflammation; to move from the lungs to other organs; to have surprising biological toxicity; to move from within the skin to the lymphatic system; and possibly to move across cell membranes." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Take the Men's Skin Care line developed by dermatologist Dr. Nicholas Perricone, who is perhaps best known as the author of three Nexo York Times bestselling books, including Tlie Perricone Prescription. Here is how Perricone's website describes his products: "Dr. Perricone has developed a patented technology exclusive to this line, called Fullerene. Fullerenes are highly stable, microscopic hollow spheres that carry the active ingredients into the skin. They bring the intriguing and transformative world of nanotechnology to the fine art and science of high performance skin care." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"As it turns out, under real-world conditions, normal handling of carbon nanotube-based materials doesn't result in dangerous levels of nanoparticles. And researchers are finding ways to reduce the toxicity of the most dangerous nanotubes dramatically: a recent minor modification reduced the cytotoxicity (the dose at which 50 percent of affected cells die within forty-eight hours) by more than 10,000 times, making the modified nanotube essentially nontoxic." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Lisa Archer from Friends of the Earth said she thinks corporations should "stop treating their customers like guinea pigs" by putting nanoparticles into personal care products before the materials are proven safe. In the absence of federal regulations, some cities are trying to get a handle on the situation. Berkeley, California became the first city to regulate nanotechnology in December 2006, and other cities may follow suit." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "FDA spokeswoman Susan Cruzan said the agency has no evidence that nanoparticles in products pose hazards. Revlon and L'Oreal did not respond to the reporter's calls seeking comment. Estee Lauder spokeswoman Janet Bartucci said the company would review the Friends of the Earth report, and gave assurances that "consumer safety has always been a top priority at the Estee Lauder Companies." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "The group filed the first-ever legal challenge on the potential health impacts of nanotechnology in a 2006 petition to the FDA, demanding that the agency monitor and regulate nanoparticles in cosmetics. Hundreds of personal care products already contain nano-sized ingredients, and thousands more contain ingredients that are available in nano form but don't include information about particle size on the labels, according to a Skin Deep analysis. Since nano-sized ingredients are absorbed differendy into the body, they require separate safety studies." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "Animal studies show that some nanoparticles can penetrate cells and tissues, move through the body and brain and cause biochemical damage.25 As one example, carbon fullerenes — also called buckyballs, and currendy being used in some moisturizers — can cause brain damage in fish, and even low levels of exposure can be toxic to human liver cells.26 The health impacts of nanomaterials in cosmetics and sunscreens remain largely unknown, pending completion of long-range studies that have only recently begun." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Such robotic applications may also protect workers from having to apply coatings manually and risk inhaling potentially harmful nanoparticles. The military is investing heavily in nanocoatings for stealth technology. nanoparticles that absorb radar make a tank, ship, or airplane virtually invisible to detection through radar. This is a pressing priority because new detection methods are rendering present stealth aircraft visible. Conductive nanowires promise to make electrical wiring cheap and invisible by incorporating it into surfaces, rather than running beneath them." - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"He proposes sending immunologically tagged nanoparticles to the tumor site (well within current medical science) and then, by bombarding the site with RF, to heat up the tumor and "fry" it (actually called hyperthermia). Kanzius' idea takes advantage of what Rife found, which is that normal human tissue is transparent to radio frequencies and, in the suggested doses at least, is unharmed by it. In any case the risk of radiation sickness from RF is less than with radiotherapy and far less of a problem than dying of cancer. I think it will work and work well. It's in trial now." - Keith Scott-Mumby, Virtual Medicine: A New Dimension in Energy Healing (Get the book.)

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