nano-Control—a non-profitable foundation since 2008
Clean indoor air because breathing means living!
Our Mission
- the protection of the population against the avoidable emissions of laser printing devices!
- the ultimate scientific clarification of the damages!
- the precautionary protection of health and labour as well as consumer protection, throughout the EU!
- the people affected so that they recover again, get back their ability to work, come into their own and recover damages!
Mission possible: We have…
- a great team consisting of more than 200 founders, sponsors and voluntarily working people in Europe, and we get stronger and stronger.
- personally helped thousands of people affected.
- informed millions of people, politicians and authorities via our websites, flyers, media reports, discussions and events.
- ensured the progress of research by investing donations of 120,000€; this progress had been promised by the Federal Government but was neglected due to the pressure of the industry. We have managed to clarify in which way toners and emissions have a harmful effect. Even genotoxic effects have been proved and this implies a danger of cancer! Metallic and carbon black particles have even been proved in human cells.
- ensured that modern ink-jet printers more and more replace the dangerous and „dusty“ laser printing technology or that they are at least equipped with filters. Thousands of laser printers have been disposed of in authorities and companies, e.g. in Hamburg’s police department, in Lower Saxon courts, in the Office of the German Federal President and the Zurich city council.
Our Projects
nano-Control promotes research and solutions
- We evaluate the written messages of thousands of people affected, collect medical results and other results of investigation and carry out surveys.
- Our „Research Initiative“ initiates investigations which we financially support to some extent. We have almost invested donations of 120,000€ and made a substantial contribution to the clarification which the Federal Government has neglected. Our project series „Good to know…“ specifically promotes small projects, also in the research sector, like e.g. the investigation of toners containing metals.
- We evaluate the results of international research. Meanwhile, far more than a hundred international studies bring evidence to pollutions and harmful effects. We provide them on this website.
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Over the course of many years, the International nano-Control Foundation (iNCF) used a detailed questionnaire to carefully and systematically collect information about health symptoms and exposure conditions of office employees who believed to be exposed to printers and photocopier machines in Germany. The data were collected between 1999 and 2010 from at least 2000 participants. After no one in Germany showed any interest on such data for many years, in 2021, a team of researchers from the US University of Massachusetts Lowell in the College of Health Sciences, led by Profs. Dhimiter Bello and Anila Bello, systematically analyzed the data and published the results in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine[1]. Dr. D Bello’s group has been investigating the chemistry and toxicology of nanoparticle emissions from printers and photocopiers for many years.
- We care for safer printing.
