Effectiveness of Local Exhaust Ventilation ( LEV ) in Controlling Engineered Nanomaterial Emissions During Reactor
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T he National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the federal agency that conducts research and makes recommendations for preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths. The NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center coordinates the Institute’s laboratory, field, and information dissemination activities on the development of tools, practices, and recommendations for the guidance document Approaches to Safe Nanotechnology (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ topics/nanotech/safenano/). A key input to the development of that document is field research studies. The NIOSH nanotechnology field research team has the objective of characterizing processes where engineered nanomaterials are produced or used. To do this, the field team
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