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biotechnology & nanotechnology regulation under environmental health and safety laws
biotechnology & nanotechnology regulation under environmental health and safety laws analyzes regulation governing biotechnology and nanotechnology industries . regulation of biotechnology which generally encompasses the manipulation of living materials by passing genetic information from one organism to another emerged in the 1970s and is of major concern to the medical pharmaceutical chemical manufacturing and agricultural fields . nanotechnology which refers to the design and production of molecular sized devices and products is a more recent field whose regulation has an impact on the same industries as biotechnology and also affects semiconductors communications technology cosmetics and consumer products . additional regulation is quite likely because the need for knowledge of the risks involved in industry processes and products is increasing . both fields are subject to the same regulatory schemes and this book describes the application of substantive laws such as the federal food drug and cosmetic act the clean water act and the clean air act to each segment of the biotechnology nanotechnology industry . also discussed are international issues and ongoing development of regulations governing these fields .