Pandora's poison: chlorine, health, and a new environmental strategy

Abstract

MIT Press, £23.50, pp 596 ISBN 0 262 20124 0 Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] Since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, the role of organochlorines in infertility, immune suppression, cancer, and developmental disorders in humans and wildlife has been argued among environmentalists, epidemiologists, and toxicologists. These conflicts were accentuated by the controversy surrounding the land disposal of waste at Love Canal, Niagara Falls, in the United States. Some of the debate has centred around the role of risk assessment. Decision makers want estimates … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif