Minding the gaps in nanotechnology safety

As nanomaterial development rapidly increases pace, the EU and US are each trying to refurbish existing regulatory regimes to address obvious gaps in controlling safety, while the chemical industry is striving to build trust in the face of many unknowns. Emma Chynoweth reports.Writing in its 2007 Environmental Policy Review published this month, the European Commission concluded that since the launch of its nanosciences and nanotechnologies...

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