Pick your poison : how our mad dash to chemical utopia is making lab rats of us all / Monona Rossol.
Pick your poison : how our mad dash to chemical utopia is making lab rats of us all / Monona Rossol.
Pick your poison : how our mad dash to chemical utopia is making lab rats of us all / Monona Rossol.
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Publisher
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2011], ©2011.
Date
[2011], ©2011.
Call Numbers
N615.902/79
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Preface -- Your body is a chemistry experiment: have we given ourselves diabetes, autism, and cancer? -- Dying for your (child's) art: why "nontoxic" doesn't mean not toxic -- Calling a product green doesn't make it stop being poison: the chemical substitution game -- "All natural" doesn't mean safe...
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Publisher
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2011], ©2011.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2011], ©2011.
Subjects
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- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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This book explains how the chemicals in everyday products are killing us, and what the government is not doing about it. Did you know that "non-toxic" usually means "never tested"? Or that many green cleaners may be good for the environment, but terrible for you? The author, a chemist and activist goes from under your sink into the halls of the pow...
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Pick your poison : how our mad dash to chemical utopia is making lab rats of us all / Monona Rossol.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N615.902/79
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74VvdaZXqjOM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvdaZXqjOM
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ISBN
0470550910
9780470550915
DDC
615.902
MMS ID
991005900399702626
