Deceit and Denial
Subtitle: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780520217492
Subjects: Chemical pollution; Iron, steel & metals industries; Public health & preventive medicine; Politics / Current Events; Medical; USA; General; Toxicology; Medical / General; Health Care Delivery; Public Affairs & Administration; United States - General; Environmental aspects; Environmental health; Factory and trade waste; Pollution; Social aspects
First sentence: Throughout world history, industry managers and laborers alike understood that work was dangerous.
Description: "This book explains the public relations campaign undertaken by the lead industry to persuade Americans to use its deadly product in painting walls, toys, furniture, and other objects in America's homes despite a wealth of information that children were at risk for serious brain damage and death from ingesting this poison.

It describes how European and American plastics industries worked together to keep secret the cancer-producing potential of one of its key ingredients, vinyl chloride monomer, the basic building block of polyvinyl chloride. Terrified that public knowledge would lead to bans or strict regulation, the industry planned an elaborate deception of the government agency responsible for protecting the health of the workforce."--BOOK JACKET.