Approaching the nanoregulation problem in chemicals legislation in the EU and US

International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 238-267

  Widmer, Markus ^a   Meili, Christoph ^a  

^a The Innovation Society Ltd   (Switzerland)

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