Nanotechnology Jumps the Gun: Nanoparticles in Consumer Products

Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 71-82

  Blackwelder, Brent ^a  

^a The Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future   (United States)

Author keywords

Friends of the earth and nanotechnology industry; Nanotechnology safety funding; Nanotechnology status of regulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449130658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470165874.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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