ABSTRACT
Our understanding of the environmental and health risks associated with nanotechnology is still limited and may result in stagnation of growth and innovation. Some other technologies have revealed unexpected ecological and health effects only several years after their broader market introduction. In the worst cases this had
25.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 459 25.2 State of the Art ............................................................................................. 461
25.2.1 Environmental Release, Fate, and Exposure .................................... 462 25.2.2 Occupational and Consumer Exposure ............................................ 462 25.2.3 Human and Environmental Toxicology and Effects on
Ecosystem Services ..........................................................................463 25.3 Roadmap for Future Research by 2020 ........................................................465
