Urgent action needed on testing and regulation of nanomaterials

The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) has issued a news release that announces there is an urgent need for more testing, extending existing governance arrangements and creating new arrangements for the control of the rapidly developing field of nanomaterials. The news release, full report, summary and related documentation may be viewed on the Royal Commission web site at…

http://www.rcep.org.uk/novelmaterials.htm

The full Commission report entitled 'Novel materials in the environment: the case of nanotechnology' is downloadable from here as a PDF file (4.6 MB).

 

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