Surge in Food Nanotechnology Worries Consumers


	Surge in Food Nanotechnology Worries Consumers

wildcat

8-4-2008 6:09 AM

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nanotech, food, future

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Davies quoted David Rejeski of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, who advocates a U.S. investment of $150 million a year in such research by 2010, to benefit from an industry that will involve “15 percent of globally manufactured goods, worth $2.6 trillion, by 2014.”

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