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Title Toxics A to Z : a guide to everyday pollution hazards / John Harte ... [and others]
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991]
©1991

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 MELB  615.9 Har/Tat  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents pt. 1. All about toxics. Fundamentals : Toxics in perspective ; The language of toxics -- Some basic medical aspects of the toxics problem : Testing and classification of toxics ; Toxics in the body -- The four major sources of toxic exposure : Toxics in air ; Toxics in water ; Toxics in food ; Toxics in consumer products -- Toxics and the environment : Movement of toxics through the environment ; Toxics in the biosphere ; Three global environmental hazards of pollutants -- Four special groups of toxics : Toxic metals ; Petrochemicals ; Pesticides ; Radiation -- Managing toxics : The waste crisis: sources and solutions ; Regulating toxics -- pt. 2. A guide to commonly encountered toxics
Analysis Environment Pollutants Toxic chemicals
Consumer protection
Industrial chemicals
Overseas item
Poisoning
Pollution
Reference works
Safety
Toxicology
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Consumer education.
Environmental health -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Environmental health -- Popular works.
Toxicology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Toxicology -- Popular works.
Environmental Exposure.
Environmental Pollutants -- adverse effects.
Environmental Health.
Genre/Form Popular Work.
Author Harte, John, 1939-
LC no. 90025860
ISBN 0520072235 (alk. paper)
0520072243 (paperback: alk. paper)
9780520072244 (paperback)