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Health, safety, and environmental issues have become increasingly important in recent years, especially in manufacturing industries such as the chemical industry. Therefore, it is prudent to devote a short chapter to outlining the position of organic colorants in this context. The chapter has several aims: to (a) alert people to the safety aspect of organic colorants, (b) outline the major regulatory bodies and registration procedures required of new chemicals, (c) focus on the important area of mutagenicity/carcinogenicity, highlighting key structure-activity relationships, and (d) discuss briefly risk assessment.
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Gregory, P. (1991). Toxicology. In: High-Technology Applications of Organic Colorants. Topics in Applied Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3822-6_13
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