Piacenza, October 14, 2011
"Innovating Food, Innovating the Law"
Conference
ALBERTO ALEMANNO (École des hautes études commerciales de Paris,
France)
Regulating Emerging Risks: The case of nano-food applications and animal cloning in food production
Video: http://vimeo.com/31450146
19 - Innovating Food, Innovating the Law - Alberto Alemanno
1. The Challenges of Nanofood and Animal Cloning Alberto Alemanno HEC Paris Innovating Food, Innovating the Law – International Conference Piacenza, October 14, 2011
30. What are Nanotechnologies? Not new materials but smaller forms of familiar materials whose properties differ significantly from those at a larger scale. The smaller the particle, the larger its surface area and reactivity. Most definitions revolve around the study and control of phenomena and materials at length scales below 100 nm and quite often they make a comparison with a human hair, which is about 80,000 nm wide 1 nm = 1 billionth of a meter