NANOTECHNOLOGY – ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IMPLICATIONS

BY MARK ROWE FOR something so small, nanotechnology is set to play a big role in the work of the environmental health officer. As it stretches across the entire field of science, from medicine and physics to engineering and chemistry, the areas that potentially encroach upon the work of the EH officer are considerable - not least because nanotechnology's emerging uses are increasingly raising concern that it may harm workers, consumers or the environment and, According to Dr Sally Tinkle of the US-based National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ...


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