Is It Safe?: Bpa and the Struggle to Define the Safety of Chemicals

by Sarah A. Vogel

Book Overview

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? Is It Safe? narrates how the meaning of the safety of industrial chemicals has been historically produced by breakthroughs in environmental health research,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520273583
• ISBN13: 9780520273580
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"