Legally Poisoned - How the Law Puts Us At Risk From Toxicants

Informationen zum Autor Carl F. Cranor is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Member of the Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program at the University of California, Riverside. Klappentext Take a random walk through your life and yoüll 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. Zusammenfassung Take a random walk through your life and you'll find it is awash in industrial! often toxic! chemicals. In this scientifically rigorous 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.

Product details

• Authors: Carl F Cranor, Carl F. Cranor, Cranor Carl F.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2013
• EAN: 9780674072213
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07221-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SCIENCE / General, Applied ecology, Environmental factors, Jurisprudence & general issues, Central / national / federal government policies, Medical and healthcare law, Environmental policy and protocols, Law and society, sociology of law, MEDICAL / Environmental Health, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care