Exposed
Subtitle: the toxic chemistry of everyday products and what's at stake for American power
By: Mark Schapiro
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: White River Junction, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781933392158
Subjects: Industries; Commerce; Government policy; Green technology; Industry; Business enterprises; Competition; Economic Competition; Environmental policy; Environmental Pollutants; Public Policy
Other titles: Toxic chemistry of everyday products
Description: Argues that Europe's evolving search for higher standards in consumer safety regulations places Brussels, not Washington, at the center of global market innovation which greatly impacts United States' claim to commercial supremacy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Soft power, hard edge; title: The beauty bluff; title: Sex & plastic; title: Two houses of risk; title: Genetic boomerang; title: Rise and fall of the machine; title: Chemical revolution; title: Transpacific drift; title: The new diplomats.