Flow chart utilized by the European Commission on Community Health and Consumer Protection to assess solubility, ability to be transported within the body, ecotoxic probability, and other hazard probability and priorities and is assigned low, intermediate, and high priority. SOURCE: European Commission, Community Health and Consumer Protection, 2004. Reprinted with permission.
Institute of Medicine (US) Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine; Goldman L, Coussens C, editors. Implications of Nanotechnology for Environmental Health Research. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2005.