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What's Toxic, What's Not
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.902
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Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: December 05, 2006
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Arsenic. Mercury. Pesticides. Dioxin. Toxic gases. Your typical hazardous waste dump, right? Wrong. These materials can be found in the home. Every day, people work, live, and play amid potentially harmful toxics-things they might not even know are there. They are exposed to these toxic substances in their homes, neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, foods, and consumer products.
Now, two toxics experts with decades of experience in public health have created a book that separates the risks from the myths of everyday toxics. Comprehensive and easy-to-use, this guide provides scenarios and real-life examples-including important warning signs-that show how to identify problems and what to do about them. With Q&A segments, charts to help assess risk, and a special homebuyer's guide, What's Toxic, What's Not is a book no home should be without.
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Rating: - Good to Know
Great Book. Has lots of helpful information. An excellent reference for anyone concerned about their living environment.
Rating: - An indispensable health guide and reference for your home and workplace
This is a must-have book.
I've never written an on-line book review but I feel so strongly about this book's message that I'm taking the time to write this one in the hopes that you'll act on it.
As a public health professional specializing in environmental health, I am always getting questions from friends, family, and the public about environmental threats to their health.
Recent examples: My water smells funny when I take showers, is this a problem for ... Read More
Rating: - A Must Have Guide Book
By reading Mr. Ginsbergs book you will learn things uou never knew and confirm things you thought you knew. It is a complete guide that every home should have. This is a polluted and toxic world we live in. It is comforting to have an idea of what toxins are and how they can and should be dealt with.
Rating: - Excellent, practical guide to environmental risks
I came across this book while browsing in the health section. Once I got past the somewhat alarming cover, I found a really useful guide to sorting out the risks from chemicals in our environment. The authors have a commonsense approach, explain the science in everyday language that I can follow, and helped me to understand which toxic substances to worry about and which are ok. I thought it would scare me, but I actually found this book to be empowering, because each chapter ends with a checklist ... Read More
Rating: - Toxic realities and myths
Rachel Carson's seminal 1950s expose, "Silent Spring" began educating us about the dangerous chemicals industry spewed onto the land and sea. After decades of media coverage of toxic events (Love Canal, Three Mile Island,Taco Bell ecoli breakout) we're either completely paranoid about what we eat and breath or completely blaise because we don't know who or what to believe anymore.
Along comes Dr. Gary Ginsberg and his sidekick Brian Toal, the toxic-busters from Connecticut's department of health ... Read More
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