CPSC Seeks Funding for Nanotechnology Center

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is seeking $7 million to establish a nanotechnology center, and proposes to create a five-year inter-agency agreement with the National Science Foundation and a learning center or university to house the center.

The proposed "Center for Consumer Product Applications and Safety Implications of Nanotechnology" would be a consortium of scientists tasked with researching methods to quantify and characterize the presence, release and mechanisms of consumer exposure to nanomaterials from consumer products.