Is it safe? : BPA and the struggle to define the safety of chemicals / / Sarah A. Vogel.

"We are all just a little bit plastic. Traces of bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical used in plastics production, are widely detected in our bodies and environment. Is this chemical, and its presence in the human body, safe? What is meant by safety? Who defines it, and according to what information?...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxi, 304 p. :; ill., ports.
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Table of Contents:
  • Plastic food
  • The "toxicity crisis" of the 1960s and 1970s
  • Regulatory toxicity testing and environmental estrogens
  • Endocrine disruption : new science, new risks
  • The low-dose debate
  • Battles over bisphenol A
  • Epilogue.