American Poison - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Poison write by Eduardo Porter. This book was released on 2020. American Poison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
The North American Guide to Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms
The North American Guide to Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The North American Guide to Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms write by Nancy J. Turner. This book was released on 2009-09-01. The North American Guide to Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If people knew how many poisonous plants are commonly found in homes and gardens, they'd be shocked. Plants as common as monkshood, castorbean, and oleander are not just dangerous, they're deadly. The North American Guide to Common Poisonous Plants and Mushrooms is a comprehensive, easy-to-use handbook. The book is split into four main categories: mushrooms, wild plants, ornamental and crop plants, and houseplants. Each plant entry includes a clear photograph to aid the task of identification, a description of the plant, notes on where they commonly occur, and a description of their toxic properties. Plants are listed by common name to assist the non-specialist.
If You Poison Us
If You Poison Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If You Poison Us write by Peter H. Eichstaedt. This book was released on 1994. If You Poison Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The untold story of the Native Americans who were the patriotic but unwitting victims of America's quest for nuclear superiority during the Cold War." Stewart L. Udall, former Secretary of the Interior (from the back cover).
Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System
Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 2004-09-16. Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poisoning is a far more serious health problem in the U.S. than has generally been recognized. It is estimated that more than 4 million poisoning episodes occur annually, with approximately 300,000 cases leading to hospitalization. The field of poison prevention provides some of the most celebrated examples of successful public health interventions, yet surprisingly the current poison control "system" is little more than a loose network of poison control centers, poorly integrated into the larger spheres of public health. To increase their effectiveness, efforts to reduce poisoning need to be linked to a national agenda for public health promotion and injury prevention. Forging a Poison Prevention and Control System recommends a future poison control system with a strong public health infrastructure, a national system of regional poison control centers, federal funding to support core poison control activities, and a national poison information system to track major poisoning epidemics and possible acts of bioterrorism. This framework provides a complete "system" that could offer the best poison prevention and patient care services to meet the needs of the nation in the 21st century.
The Poison Squad
The Poison Squad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poison Squad write by Deborah Blum. This book was released on 2018-09-25. The Poison Squad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad." Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law." Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate greed and government corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks resoundingly to the enormous social and political challenges we face today.
