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OECD safety testing programme for nanomaterials

25-Apr-2008
Japan, the UK and the USA have started work on a first group of nanomaterials - carbon fullerenes, single-wall carbon nanotubes, multi-wall carbon nanotubes and cerium oxide - as part of an OECD programme to safety test substances already, or nearly commercialised launched today in Tokyo. They will determine physico-chemical, eco- and mammalian toxicology.