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Why poison ourselves? : a precautionary approach to synthetic chemicals
- Title
- Why poison ourselves? : a precautionary approach to synthetic chemicals / Anne Platt McGinn ; Chris Bright, editor.
- Author
- McGinn, Anne Platt.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Worldwatch Institute, [2000]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Worldwatch Institute.
- Description
- 92 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- There are today between 50,000 and 100,000 synthetic chemicals in commercial production, and new synthetics are entering the market at an average rate of three per day. Most synthetics probably pose little risk for the environment or human health, but some are poisonous even in minute quantities. Recent research on certain highly toxic synthetics has linked them to serious human health effects in the parts per trillion range. Ecological research is uncovering extensive wildlife damage as well.
- Series Statement
- Worldwatch paper ; 153
- Uniform Title
- Worldwatch paper ; 153.
- Alternative Title
- Precautionary approach to synthetic chemicals
- Subject
- Environmental toxicology > Law and legislation
- Chemical industry > Environmental aspects
- Organic compounds > Synthesis > Environmental aspects
- Hazardous wastes > Law and legislation
- Environmental law, International
- Chemical industry
- Environmental Pollutants > toxicity
- Toxicology > legislation & jurisprudence
- Chemical Industry
- Hazardous Waste > legislation & jurisprudence
- Organic Chemicals > toxicity
- Industrie chimique
- Substances toxiques
- Pesticides
- Industrie de pâte et papier
- Matières plastiques
- Droit de l'environnement
- Droit international
- Protection de l'environnement
- Chemical industry
- Chemical industry > Environmental aspects
- Environmental law, International
- Hazardous wastes > Law and legislation
- Pesticiden
- Chemische stoffen
- Papierindustrie
- PVC
- Afbraak (scheikunde)
- Note
- "November 2000."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-92).
- Contents
- Introduction -- Toxics and the precautionary principle -- Pulp and paper : designing the toxic out of the system -- Pesticides: substituting knowledge for synthetics -- PVC : turning complex problems into multiple opportunities -- Leveraging change.
- ISBN
- 1878071556
- 9781878071552
- LCCN
- 00110043
- OCLC
- ocm45456289
- 45456289
- SCSB-14655718
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library