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New guidance brings clarity to environmental hazard and behaviour testing of nanomaterials

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This study was supported by German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety under the projects FKZ 3713 65 406 and Refoplan 3719 664 010; the US Army Environmental Quality/Installations Research Program and SafeRapidNano congressional interest; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects (STPGP) grant to G.G.G. (grant no. 463674); NSERC, Environment Canada and National Research Council of Canada Nanotechnology Initiative (grant no. RES0002319); and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures nanoWorks collaborative research agreement (grant no. 200900065).

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  1. Biosystems and Biomaterials Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

    Elijah Joel Petersen

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta and National Research Council of Canada Nanotechnology Initiative, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Greg Gerard Goss

  3. Department of Environmental Geosciences (EDGE), Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Frank von der Kammer

  4. US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Environmental Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, USA

    Alan James Kennedy

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Petersen, E.J., Goss, G.G., von der Kammer, F. et al. New guidance brings clarity to environmental hazard and behaviour testing of nanomaterials. Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 482–483 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-00889-1

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