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Organization, World Health.
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363.19264
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2010
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The advent of nanotechnology has unleashed enormous prospects for the development of new products and applications for a wide range of industrial and consumer sectors. The new technological developments have already opened up a multibillion dollar industry in recent years, the global market impact of which is expected to reach US1 trillion by 2015, with around 2 million workers. While the majority of manufacturing and use of nanoscale materials occurs in the United States, the European Union, with its around 30 percent global share of the sector, is not lagging far behind in this field. Like other sectors, nanotechnology promises to revolutionize the whole food chain--from production to processing, storage, and development of innovative materials, products and applications. Although the potential applications of nanotechnology are wide ranging, the current applications in the food and agricultural sectors are relatively few, because the science is still newly emergent . An overview of more than 800 nanotechnology-based consumer products that are currently available worldwide, suggests that only around 10 percent of these are foods, beverages and food packaging products. However, nanotechnology-derived products and applications in these sectors have been steadily increasing in recent years, and are predicted to grow rapidly in the future. This is because the new technologies have a great potential to address many of the industry's current needs--p. 3.
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Organization, World Health.
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363.192641.308641.308
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2012
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The toxicological monographs in this volume summarize the safety data on a number of food additives: aluminium-containing food additives Benzoe Tonkinensis Ponceau 4R pullulanase from Bacillus deramificans expressed in Bacillus licheniformis Quinoline Yellow and Sunset Yellow FCF. This volume also contains monographs summarizing the toxicological and dietary exposure data for the contaminants cyanogenic glycosides and fumonisins. This volume and others in the WHO Food Additives Series contain information that is useful to those who produce and use food additives and veterinary drugs and those involved with controlling contaminants in food government and food regulatory officers industrial testing laboratories toxicological laboratories and universities.
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