Research measures movement of nanomaterials in simple model food...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Thu, 05/29/2008 - 23:00

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) New research shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount transferred was relatively low and there was no evidence of the nanomaterials concentrating in the higher level organisms.

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