Legally poisoned [electronic resource] : how the law puts us at risk from toxicants / Carl F. Cranor.
2011
RA566.3 .C73 2011eb
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Legally poisoned [electronic resource] : how the law puts us at risk from toxicants / Carl F. Cranor.
Author
Cranor, Carl F.
ISBN
9780674058927 electronic book
9780674049703
9780674049703
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 315 p.)
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RA566.3 .C73 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.73/63
Summary
Take a random walk through your life and you'll find it is awash in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. Cosmetic ingredients, industrial chemicals, pesticides, and other compounds enter our bodies and remain briefly, or permanently. Far too many suspected toxic hazards are unleashed every day that affect the development and function of our brain, immune system, reproductive organs, or hormones. But no public health law requires product testing of most chemical compounds before they enter the market. If products are deemed dangerous, toxicants must be forcibly reduced or removed, but only after harm has been done. In this scientific legal analysis, the author argues that just as pharmaceuticals and pesticides cannot be sold without pre-market testing, other chemical products should be subject to the same safety measures. He shows, in detail, what risks we run, and that it is entirely possible to design a less dangerous commercial world. -- From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Nowhere to hide
Discovering disease, dysfunction, and death by molecules
Caveat parens : a nation at risk from contaminants
Reckless nation : how existing laws fail to protect children
A more prudent approach to reduce toxic invasions
What kind of world do we want to create?.
Discovering disease, dysfunction, and death by molecules
Caveat parens : a nation at risk from contaminants
Reckless nation : how existing laws fail to protect children
A more prudent approach to reduce toxic invasions
What kind of world do we want to create?.