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Legally Poisoned : How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants / Carl F. Cranor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674049703
  • 9780674058927
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.73/63
LOC classification:
  • RA566.3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 NOWHERE TO HIDE -- 3 DISCOVERING DISEASE , DYSFUNCTION, AND DEATH BY MOLECULES -- 4 CAVEAT PARENS: A NATION AT RISK FROM CONTAMINANTS -- 5 RECKLESS NATION: HOW EXISTING LAWS FAIL TO PROTECT CHILDREN -- 6 A MORE PRUDENT APPROACH TO REDUCE TOXIC INVASIONS -- 7 WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE WANT TO CREATE? -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Summary: Take a random walk through your life and you'll find it is awash in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. Sip water from a plastic bottle and ingest bisphenol A. Prepare dinner in a non-stick frying pan or wear a layer of Gore-Tex only to be exposed to perfluorinated compounds. Hang curtains, clip your baby into a car seat, watch television-all are manufactured with brominated flame-retardants. 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 scientifically rigorous legal analysis, Carl Cranor 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. Cranor shows, in terrifying detail, what risks we run, and that it is entirely possible to design a less dangerous commercial world.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 NOWHERE TO HIDE -- 3 DISCOVERING DISEASE , DYSFUNCTION, AND DEATH BY MOLECULES -- 4 CAVEAT PARENS: A NATION AT RISK FROM CONTAMINANTS -- 5 RECKLESS NATION: HOW EXISTING LAWS FAIL TO PROTECT CHILDREN -- 6 A MORE PRUDENT APPROACH TO REDUCE TOXIC INVASIONS -- 7 WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO WE WANT TO CREATE? -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

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Take a random walk through your life and you'll find it is awash in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. Sip water from a plastic bottle and ingest bisphenol A. Prepare dinner in a non-stick frying pan or wear a layer of Gore-Tex only to be exposed to perfluorinated compounds. Hang curtains, clip your baby into a car seat, watch television-all are manufactured with brominated flame-retardants. 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 scientifically rigorous legal analysis, Carl Cranor 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. Cranor shows, in terrifying detail, what risks we run, and that it is entirely possible to design a less dangerous commercial world.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)