This article is academically ridiculous.

It is perfectly legal to sell CS in EU for water purification so long as
you don't drink it.

As for article's excessive concern for free-radicals, CS nanoparticles not
only don't cause free-radicals, they scavenge them.  (see article below)

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11051-012-1366-7