Protection of the Consumer of Nanotechnological Production in brazilian law

Abstract

The present text aims to examine the supplier’s duty of information regarding the risks that consumers run in contact with products developed from nanoparticles and to analyze whether nanoconsumers are hypervulnerable, are linked to their own consumption or if they face a new kind of hypervulnerability, to conclude that, in the absence of clear and objective information on the posible health risks of consumers of products made from nanoparticles, there is a violation of the fourth-dimensional constitutional principle and the consumer prediction of law to information.