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Sameness: The regulatory crux with nanomaterial identity and grouping schemes for hazard assessment
Tobias Walser1, Christoph Studer1
1Federal Office of Public Health, 3003 Bern, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Regulators and industry need clear rules for identification and grouping of nanomaterials for a streamlined quantitative hazard evaluation. Therefore, we provide convincing reasons for (i) why to introduce pragmatic definition of identities for nanomaterials, (ii) how to combine them into entities, and ultimately (iii) how the entities might be evaluated with testing strategies based on clouds of similar nanomaterials.
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