to want to buy socks without silver nano particles in them?

[entropygirl]

Apparently S'buries dont cater for people who dont want an unnecessary essentially untested new nano scale product in their socks....

It is rather alarming that nano-particles are so much more controlled in my work environment than in for instance sainsburys....

I am reminded of a previous product that was cheap fantastic and funky and went into everything from concrete through wallpaper to ironing boards before the health implications had been properly examined, and which people now have to pay $$$ to get removed from buildings by people in HAZMAT suits....

[GetOrfMoiiLand]

What?!

[entropygirl]

I need more to go on GetOrf?

[WowOoo]

What nano particles?
I thought you'd say you couldn't find plain black socks, only ones with silver sparkly bits.
I will look for these socks next time I'm there. Intrigued now.

[QuietNinjaLamp]

So nano particles are on a level with asbestos? I suggest primark for socks. Cheap as chips and not a nano in sight. Hth.

[lynlynnicebutdim]

We are The Borg.

Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.

Resistance is futile.

[ramblinrose]

Do they stop sweaty feet or something?

[entropygirl]

I am certainly not saying nano-particles are as dangerous as asbestos...just that asbestos was released without proper health checks and silver nano-particles have been too. Hopefully we will be lucky this time eh?

[entropygirl]

I should point out that I work in the realm of nano-tech and am not at all a lentil weaving 'FEAR THE NEW' person. But there are already some proven health risks to nano-silver so I dont really get why we need it in socks.

[GetOrfMoiiLand]

Did I press the wrong button at the synchotron this morning and pulverise a selection of socks (Sainsburys only) with radioactive particles?

Whoops.

[entropygirl]

erm yeah well radio activity is also antibacterial but I think I will skip it in my socks too.

[QuietNinjaLamp]

Why is it in socks? And also is it actually in socks or have the sock makers said it's in the socks to make us all rush out and buy nano socks for some super duper reason that I don't know about? Um.

[entropygirl]

hmm for that matter why not lace socks with antibiotics of the conventional sort....at least they have been tested on humans....

[entropygirl]

Perhaps I should also point out that silver in metallic or ionic form is almost totally safe. But colloidal or nano-silver has been shown to be toxic in brains and livers etc.

[entropygirl]

quiet hmm thats an interesting question...perhaps I will get some of the undergrads to find out if there really is any silver nano particles in s'buries socks....would make a good team project.

[LizzieMo]

Poor old Sainsburies are going to be inundated with customers complaining about radioactive socks now. What have you done?

[SecretSquirrels]

So is it just socks then or should we fear jumpers or pyjamas as well? Only Sainsbuys socks though...

[chocolatchaud]

Oh no - had never even heard of nano particles!

I thought you were complaining about glittery socks.

Now have one more thing to worry about avoiding.

[droves]

Im with you Entropy . Why put it in socks ? Is it to do with inhibiting bacterial growth ? Why not wash your feet you dont need nano-silver socks. . . just soap and water !

Im sure i have seen wound dressings with it in them also , perhaps it was just "normal silver" ? . Either way it seems to me that those that market , are looking for more extrem gimicks all the time to sell their products.

Its not fair that these "untested" things are being promoted .

[CalatalieSisters]

Hmm, I'm with entropygirl. There are ishoos re toxic sludge.

Seems like a totally unneccessary risk, even if it is a small one.

[ProcrastinateWildly]

entropygirl, not sure why everyone is taking the piss. Sounds like a valid concern to me. What the fuck are nano particles anyway?

[Procrastinating]

Is this the same stuff that is in the Marks & Spencer 'Fresh Feet' socks?
They made my feet itch.

[Procrastinating]

Oh hello fellow procratinator.

[oldmum42]

Entropygirl, how NANO is the silver? Can it pass through the skin (reach the brain/liver), or would you have to ingest the socks? Is there not a fairly big size range for what constitutes a nano particle and therefore what would be safe?
Marketing ploy on the part of S'buries methinks...... is the silver actually Nano, or there at all after a couple of washes?

[IneedAbetterNicknameIn2012]

I have an I-pod Nano, what will happen if I put that inside my socks, other than it may break?

[droves]

Can you all please stop taking the piss ? .

This is a serious issue about contamination .

Respect the thread ....or i will send the particles round.

Honestly , i think its a carceogen or something.

< need to learn to spell , damn you dyslexia>