Editorial: Nanomaterials and the environment: The views of the royal commission on environmental pollution (UK)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-4

  Depledge, M H ^a   Pleasants, L J ^a   Lawton, J H ^a  

^a Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; NANOTUBE;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTOXICOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED KINGDOM; WASTE DISPOSAL; ANIMAL; LEGAL ASPECT; POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 77952244837     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.35     Document Type: Editorial

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