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Response to Article 309

Author: Mark Booth

Published in: NanoEthics | Issue 2/2018

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Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) was extremely disappointed in the inaccurately titled and inflammatory paper: Governing with Ignorance: Understanding the Australian Food Regulator’s Response to Nano Food by Kristen Lyons and Naomi Smith first published online in December 2017 [1]. In this response I will point out some of the more serious inaccuracies in the paper. …

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Title: Response to Article 309
Author: Mark Booth
Publication date: 30-06-2018
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: NanoEthics / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 1871-4757
Electronic ISSN: 1871-4765
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-018-0320-2

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