Towards sensible toxicity testing for nanomaterials: Proposal for the specification of test design

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Potthoff, Annegret ^a   Weil, Mirco ^b   Meißner, Tobias ^a,d   Kühnel, Dana ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b ECT OEKOTOXIKOLOGIE GMBH   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d Institut fur Korrosionsschutz Dresden GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

decision support; engineered nanomaterials; harmonization; hazard assessment; physical chemical characterisation; toxicity test design

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL HAZARDS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; FLOWCHARTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; HAZARDS; SURVEYS; TOXICITY;

DECISION SUPPORTS; ENGINEERED NANOMATERIALS; HARMONIZATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION; TOXICITY TEST;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84950335508     PISSN: 14686996     EISSN: 18785514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1468-6996/16/6/065006     Document Type: Article

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