Nanomaterials in Food and Food Contact Materials-Potential Implications for Consumer Safety and Regulatory Controls

Nanotechnology in the Agri-Food Sector: Implications for the Future

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 191-208

  Chaudhry, Qasim ^a   Castle, Laurence ^a   Watkins, Richard ^a  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer safety; Engineered nanomaterial; Food contact material; Food packaging; Nano functionalization; Regulatory control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869176267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527634798.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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