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• Title:The body toxic : how the hazardous chemistry of everyday things threatens our health and well-being / Nena Baker.
  
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• Author/Creator:Baker, Nena, 1959-
  
• Published/Created:New York : North Point Press, 2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QV600 .B25 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Toxicology--Popular works.
  Environmental toxicology--Popular works.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:277 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780865477070 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0865477078 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction. Coming Clean
  1. Chemical Stew: Body Burden
  2. Chemicals We've Loved: Consumer Conveniences
  3. Kermit's Blues: Atrazine and Frogs
  4. What Price Beauty? Phthalates and You
  5. Up in Flames: Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers
  6. Goods on Bad Plastic: Bisphenol A
  7. Out of the Frying Pan and onto the Paper: Perfluorinated Chemicals
  8. Reaching Ahead: New Policies
  Epilogue: My List and Beyond
  Appendix 1. It's All About You
  Appendix 2. Environmental and Public-Health Groups That Get It
  Appendix 3. Learn More from Government Sources.