Year: 2009
Type: review
Abstract: Engineered nanomaterials represent a new and expanding class of chemicals whoseenvironmental hazard is actually poorly determined. The peculiar behavior of nanomaterials makesthem much more similar to new chemicals than to the corresponding bulk materials; this featureimposes reliable and standardized evaluation protocols for toxicity and ecotoxicity assessments.General rules for assessing nanotoxicity and the state of the art are periodically published in reports by control agencies. This review highlights the role of invertebrates as valuable and validated testorganisms for assessing ecotoxicity of new and/or untested chemicals. The general scarcity ofexperimental data, their unequal distribution among the different nanomaterials and environmentalconditions, the difficulties in manipulating nanomaterials and obtaining stable and homogeneoussuspensions, the confusion arising from a not well defined metrics are discussed.
Source: Invertebrate survival journal
Authors: AG Cattaneo, R Gornati, M Chiriva-Internati, G Bernardini
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W85125376