The Moveable Feast: Nanotechnology on our Dinner Tables from modified page

From genetically modified crops to nanoparticles in our food, converging technologies will likely change the way we eat. By converging technologies, we are referring to the convergence of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technologies, and Cognitive Sciences (NBIC ). Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) already part of the legal landscape wiih Monsanto v. Geertson, and the Daily Kos explains in a very sharp article why we should be paying attention to this case. GMOs' aside, there are already nutraceuticals that claim to boost brain power available at your local health food store; converging nanotechnology and information technology promises to deliver such things as InVitro meat and food packaging that reports spoilage before it visible to the naked eye. And what is Nanofood? Is there a definition? What does the future hold with regards to new foodstuff and what, as lawyers, scientists, ethicists and public health policy makers can we expect to contemplate? Will new oversight or regulations or laws be needed? Linda is currently writing an article on this topic, based on her invited presentation at Northeastern University Law School, and will be addressing many of these questions. A link to her talk will be posted on the site shortly, as well as her paper, as soon as it is published.