Legally Poisoned: How the Law Puts Us at Risk from Toxicants Pdf

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Release: 2011-02-15
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0674049705
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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 Download Legally Poisoned for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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