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Recommendations for a Municipal Health & Safety Policy for Nanomaterials

A Report to the Cambridge City Manager

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    Consumer products inventory, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson Institute. Available at: www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer.

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    “New Nanotech Products Hitting the Market at the Rate of 3-4 Per Week,” Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson Institute, April 24, 2008. Available at: http://www.nanotechproject.org.

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Hays, S.A., Robert, J.S., Miller, C.A., Bennett, I. (2013). Recommendations for a Municipal Health & Safety Policy for Nanomaterials. In: Hays, S., Robert, J., Miller, C., Bennett, I. (eds) Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future. Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1787-9_19

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