Health committee  In my opinion, the development of nanoparticles is inevitable. Indeed, nanoparticles may do a great deal to improve certain technologies, maybe even enable us to come up with new technologies. Nevertheless, we must not forget that we developed flame retardants that were integrate

Health committee  Yes, please. I want to talk about your second question about commercialization. Commercialization is a little tricky in Canada compared to the United States, because in Canada you have the New Substances Assessment and Control Bureau, which is there to accept or refuse this new

Health committee  I have only five minutes, so I was trying to get it all in there. Okay.

Health committee  Okay. The pros for nanotechnology are that the nano-particles generate products with unique, useful, and sometimes surprising properties. What is frequently observed is the chemistry at the nano-size is not the same as at a larger size, as Dr. Ostiguy said before. Also, the gov

Health committee  Okay. I'm worse in French. The different meetings I attend point out the necessity to integrate the social communication transparency education aspect in nanotechnology development, so many structures already exist around the words. As I said before with OECD, NNI, we also have

Health committee  Thank you, Ms. Murray. Today, as a Canadian researcher, I'm going to talk about my own perception of this issue, but first I want to introduce myself. I have an affiliation with the University of Montreal as a clinical adjunct professor and also as an associate professor at UQAM