Will nanotechnology be the next asbestos? Will it cause a similar flood of litigation and liabilities that have collectively cost companies that ever manufactured or used the substance hundreds of billions of dollars and driven many of them into bankruptcy?

While it's still too early to tell, good risk management suggests that many types of businesses–some seemingly far removed from nanotechnology–are planning ahead and hoping answers to these questions will be negative.

You don't have to be a scientist to understand the significance of some very important facts about nanotechnology and why many companies–not only those that actually manufacture nanomaterials–need to be concerned about them.

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