TY - BOOK ID - 77891814 TI - Is it safe? : BPA and the struggle to define the safety of chemicals PY - 2013 SN - 1283804344 0520954203 9780520954205 9781283804349 0520273575 9780520273573 0520273583 9780520273580 9780520273573 9780520273580 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Politics. KW - Environmental Exposure KW - Endocrine Disruptors KW - Economics. KW - Phenols KW - Capital KW - Conditions, Economic KW - Consumption KW - Cost of Living KW - Easterlin Hypothesis KW - Economic Conditions KW - Economic Policies KW - Economic Policy KW - Economics, Home KW - Home Economics KW - Household Consumption KW - Macroeconomic Factors KW - Microeconomic Factors KW - Policies, Economic KW - Policy, Economic KW - Production KW - Remittances KW - Utility Theory KW - Consumer Price Index KW - Condition, Economic KW - Consumer Price Indices KW - Consumption, Household KW - Economic Condition KW - Factor, Macroeconomic KW - Factor, Microeconomic KW - Factors, Macroeconomic KW - Factors, Microeconomic KW - Household Consumptions KW - Hypothesis, Easterlin KW - Index, Consumer Price KW - Indices, Consumer Price KW - Living Cost KW - Living Costs KW - Remittance KW - Theories, Utility KW - Theory, Utility KW - Utility Theories KW - Conservatism KW - Decentralization KW - Liberalism KW - Political Factors KW - Voting KW - Political Activity KW - Activities, Political KW - Activity, Political KW - Factor, Political KW - Factors, Political KW - Political Activities KW - Political Factor KW - Dissent and Disputes KW - standards. KW - legislation & jurisprudence. KW - toxicity. KW - Phenols. KW - Chemicals KW - Health risk assessment. KW - Safety measures. KW - Assessment, Health risk KW - Health hazard appraisal KW - Health hazard assessment KW - Health risk appraisal KW - HRA (Public health) KW - Human risk assessment KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - Public health KW - Risk assessment KW - Environmental health KW - Phenolic compounds KW - Phenolics KW - Alcohols KW - Antiseptics KW - Aromatic compounds KW - american culture. KW - american society. KW - bpa plastic. KW - coffee table books. KW - dangers of plastic. KW - discussion books. KW - easy to read. KW - economics and science. KW - educational books. KW - engaging. KW - going green. KW - health care issues. KW - health fitness. KW - health policy. KW - home school science books. KW - informative reading. KW - is plastic safe. KW - learning from experts. KW - nonfiction reading. KW - page turner. KW - plastic in environment. KW - politics and science. KW - public health books. KW - quarantine books. KW - safety guide. KW - saving the planet. KW - science and math. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77891814 AB - "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, which in turn trigger contests among trade associations, lawyers, politicians, and citizen activists to set new regulatory standards. Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews, author Sarah Vogel explores the roots of the contemporary debate over the safety of BPA, and the concerns presented by its estrogen-like effects even at low doses. Ultimately, she contends that science alone cannot resolve the political and economic conflicts at play in the definition of safety. To strike a sustainable balance between the interests of commerce and public health requires recognition that powerful interests will always try to shape the criteria for defining safety, and that the agenda for environmental health research should be protected from capture by any single interest group"--Provided by publisher. ER -