The invisible killer lurking in our consumer products

Date 9th, Feb 2021
Source EurekAlert - Scientific News Websites

DESCRIPTION

Our consumer products, such as food, cosmetics and clothes, might be filled with nanomaterials - unbeknownst to us. The use of nanomaterials remains unregulated and they do not show up in lists of ingredients. A new study published in Nature Communications sheds light on whether they are harmful and what happens to them when they enter an organism.