Nanocommentary: Occupational and environmental health and nanotechnology - What's new?

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 454-455

  Sng, Judy ^a   Koh, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; CROCIDOLITE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

ECOTOXICITY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GOVERNMENT; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEACHING; MATERIALS TESTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MESOTHELIOMA; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXICOLOGY; WASTE WATER;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MICE; NANOPARTICLES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 54949141507     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqn132     Document Type: Editorial

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