SmallTimes Magazine and Nano Science and Technology Institute To Co-Produce 'Health & Environmental Summit on Nano' at Nanotech 2007 in May.Event Will Assist FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. in Fact-Finding by Gathering Top Experts from Science, Industry, and Government at Nation's Leading Nanotech Conference CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- To assist the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its fact-finding on the use of nanotechnologies in foods, cosmetics, drugs, and other consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and , nanoscience's leading publisher and conference producer will co-produce a special "Health & Environmental Summit on Nano" during Nanotech 2007, May 20-24 in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. The 'Health and Environmental Summit on Nano' will be co-produced by PennWell Corporation's SmallTimes magazine and Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI NSTI Nano Science and Technology Institute NSTI National Summer Transportation Institute NSTI Nashville State Technical Institute NSTI National Statistics Training Institute ) Nanotech 2007, the leading nanotechnology conference in the U.S, where some 4,000 nano experts from science, research, commercial and government interests are expected to gather. "We are very excited to be working with Nanotech 2007 and NSTI on the 'Health and Environmental Summit on Nano'. We believe this event will put us at the forefront of the work to help the FDA industry and academia to identify the real issues pertaining to nanotechnology-based products and health and safety," said Patti Glaza, Publisher of Small Times. "Because the term "nano" covers such a broad range of technologies, it is critical that we have a coordinated effort to map the benefits and potential risks of different applications." "As the producer of the Nanotech 200x conference series, NSTI has many valuable and long-standing relationships with experts on nanotechnology in consumer goods, such as foods and cosmetics. Working with PennWell and SmallTimes, we are assembling a very important event to 'bridge the knowledge gap' between nanotechnology's research professionals and U.S. government officials," NSTI Executive Director Dr. Matthew Laudon said. Last year, for instance, NSTI's Nanotech2006 hosted health and environmental nanoscience experts from Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. , Yale University, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, , Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as , City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: [kjuni]), is the public university system of New York City. , BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida , Proctor and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever Research and others. About the Health & Environmental Summit on Nano The 'Health & Environmental Summit on Nano' will be held during Nanotech2007, May 20-24, 2007 in Santa Clara, Calif. To Submit Papers: NSTI invites all nano researchers with an interest in consumer goods (foods, cosmetics, drugs, etc.) to submit proposals to speak at the "Health & Environmental Summit on Nano" using this special URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2007/symposia/Environment_Society.html NSTI and Small Times will co-produce a second Health & Environment Summit during Small Times NanoCon International, November 13-15, 2007 in Santa Clara, Calif. About Small Times SmallTimes, a division of PennWell, is the leading source of information and analysis on commercializing micro and nanotechnologies. Launched in 2001, Small Times magazine and SmallTimes.com detail manufacturing and materials advances, technology applications and financial activities to help leaders stay informed about the rapidly changing business of micro and nanotechnology from biotech to defense, telecom to transportation. Small Times spotlights key issues in the industry's development, along with market intelligence, company profiles and more. About The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI; www.nsti.org) is chartered with the advancement and integration of nano and other advanced technologies through education, collaboration and research services. NSTI accomplishes this mission through its offerings of continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). programs, conventions, scientific and business publishing and custom research services. NSTI produces the annual Nanotech 200x conference and trade show (now in its 10th year), the world's largest event to focus on nanoscience and nanotechnology, attracting more than 4,000 industrial, academic, business and governmental attendees from around the world. http://www.nsti.org. The NSTI Nanotech Conference and Exposition is the nation's largest conference of university and commercial nanoscientists and engineers, which last year hosted more than 3,000 nano professionals. |
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