Group calls for moratorium on nanotech lab research

The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group), a Canadian-based civil society organization monitoring nanotechnology, has renewed its 2003 call for a global moratorium on nanotech lab research and a recall of consumer products containing engineered nanoparticles. According to the ETC Group, there is particular urgency for those products that are ingested, applied to the body or released in the environment.