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Call from China for joint nanotech toxicity-testing effort

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In response to your News story 'Nanoparticle safety in doubt' about lung damage in Chinese factory workers (Nature 460, 937; 2009), we would like to stress that China has been paying close attention to research into and documentation of the risks of working with nanomaterials.

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    Shuping Bi, Jing Zhang & Jiongjia Cheng

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