Nanosilica? Clarifications are necessary!

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 611-613

  Bosch, Axel ^a   Maier, Monika ^b   Morfeld, Peter ^c,d  

^a WACKER CHEMIE AG   (Germany)

^b EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH   (Germany)

^c Institute for Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment (IERA)   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD ADDITIVE; NANOPARTICLE; NANOSILICA; SILICON DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NANOMATERIAL;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; LETTER; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARD;

FOOD SAFETY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84867044499     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2011.595837     Document Type: Letter

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