During a review meeting at the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) in Madison, Wisconsin, the USDA Forest Service and the US Endowment for Forestry and Communities discussed a public-private partnership named P3Nano examined projects in which they had co-invested in 2016 in an effort to fund cellulose nanomaterials research ($4 million total, $2 million from FS, $2 million from the partner).

As of January 1, 2018, notifiers are now required to provide information on nanomaterials contained in chemical products in Sweden according to a decision made by The Swedish Chemicals Agency (KEMI) in December 2017.

Swedish scientists at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have created a bio-based material made of cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) which they report to be stronger than all other man-made or natural bio-based materials, including spider silk and wood.

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new composite material using wood pulp and dried pieces of an invasive exotic pest called tunicates.

The proposed new rule would require food manufacturers and other entities that label foods for retail sale to disclose if the product contains bioengineered food, or food ingredients.