Creating safer consumer products: The information challenges companies face

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 605-614

  Scruggs, Caroline E ^a   Ortolano, Leonard ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemicals management; Consumer products; Hazardous chemicals; Human and environmental health; REACH; TSCA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ACCIDENT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INTERVIEW; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959980992     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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