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Home → Blog → FDA issues rules on nano

FDA issues rules on nano

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Carl Batt

Nanotechnology can offer lots of solutions to many of today’s challenges.  In the world of medicine, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for regulating medicine and medical devices in the US.  The FDA has recently adopted three standards for things like particle size distribution, and how to characterize the surface of gold nanoparticles.  Mostly the worry is about unbound nanoparticles, and how they might affect your health.

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