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Has all the magic gone?
Apr 12th 2006
From The Economist print edition
ON MARCH 27th a bathroom cleaner called Magic Nano went (A) sale in Germany. Three days later it was withdrawn from the market after nearly 80 people reported severe respiratory problems and six were admitted (B) hospital with fluid on their lungs. Although most of the symptoms soon cleared up, critics of nanotechnology, have been quick to identify this as （1）one of the first examples of a sinister technology run ★amok[1].
One problem (C) this criticism is that the respiratory problems were noticed only with the ★aerosol[2] spray-can form of the product. No problems have been reported with the same fluid in a pump bottle. Jürgen Kundke, of the Berlin-based Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, a government group that reports on consumer-health protection, points to similar respiratory effects in a Swiss product several years ago that was not marketed (D) a nanotechnology label.
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