How the chemicals in everyday products are killing us—and what the government is not doing about it
Did you know that ""nontoxic"" usually means ""never tested""? Or that many green cleaners are good for the environment but terrible for you? Chemist and activist Monona Rossol goes from under your sink to the halls of the powerful, tracing America’s love affair with chemicals that kill, explaining how much worse the problem has gotten in the last decade. Shocking and appalling and completely reckless—that’s how she describes the current prevalence of harmful chemicals in our everyday lives. Scientists have started linking our increased rates of cancer, autism, obesity, and asthma (among others) to chemical exposure and Rossol points the finger directly at the companies and executives making millions of dollars by polluting our environment and introducing toxic chemicals into our bodies. She chronicles how everyday toxins get into our bodies and accumulate over time and provides us with inspiration to make changes at the checkout lines. She also explains that Americans are not nearly as well protected by our government as we might think we are. Unlike the European Union, the United States allows chemical companies to produce toxins for use in U.S. consumer products with little to no oversight. While her tone is wry and entertaining, she’s also well informed, and her fact-filled treatise makes for absolutely terrifying reading.
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<li>Includes surprising explanations about the chemicals in furniture, detergents, paints, makeup, toys, spray cleaners, ionic air purifiers, art supplies, and more </li>
<li>Reveals how many eco-friendly products are good for the environment but bad for your health </li>
<li>Exposes the truth about government regulations, product testing, and labeling, including why terms such as ""nontoxic"" (which often means ""never tested""), ""hypoallergenic,"" and ""FDA-approved"" can be misleading </li>
<li>Offers practical ways to reduce your exposure and protect yourself and your family </li>
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If you’re alarmed by the health risks of the many hazardous chemicals we encounter at home, work, and school, don’t get frightened, get informed. Read Pick Your Poison to learn the facts and find out what you can do about the daily onslaught of toxins that are making lab rats of us all.

Pick Your Poison: How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia is Making Lab Rats of Us All

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rossol, Monona

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Trade Paper Press

This informative, first-of-its-kind publication discusses how to deal with the hazards of solvents, paints, pigments, and dyes; plastics; woodworking; theatrical makeup; welding; and fog and other special effects. Nearly 40 charts, diagrams, and cartoons illustrate the unique problems that threaten health and safety in the theater and their solutions. This is a guide practical for everyone in the performing arts.

Stage fright--health and safety in the theater

Safety & First Aid

Center for Occupational Hazards

The safe use of art or craft materials requires awareness and training. A host of toxic industrial chemicals and environmental pollutants are often found in these materials. Since The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide was first published in April, 1990, new research has changed the safety information about and threshold limit values for a number of chemicals used in art materials. This revised edition is a guide to using these potentially toxic materials safely and ethically. It is also designed to help art workers and teachers comply with health and safety laws in the United States and Canada. Coverage includes technical hazards information in plain language, tables of data on art materials ingredients, steps to comply with health and safety laws, safety checklists for studios and classrooms, detailed descriptions of safe practices, recommendations for proper protective equipment, and a list of non-toxic products for use by children and others who are especially sensitive to toxic substances.

The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide: Everything Artists Need to Know about Art Materials

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Allworth Press

This informative, first-of-its-kind publication discusses how to deal with the hazards of solvents, paints, pigments, and dyes; plastics; woodworking; theatrical makeup; welding; and fog and other special effects. Nearly 40 charts, diagrams, and cartoons illustrate the unique problems that threaten health and safety in the theater and their solutions. This is a guide practical for everyone in the performing arts.

Stage Fright: Health and Safety in the Theatre

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Allworth Pr

This guide tells photographers, lab personnel, and others how to ensure health and safety when working with photographic chemicals.

Overexposure: Health Hazards in Photography

Arts & Photography

Shaw, Susan D.

Photography & Video

Definitely a necessity for anyone involved in professional or amateur entertainment, this handbook is the only resource to offer all vital information about health and safety issues affecting the performing arts. Covered are topics relevant to every type of performance venue: stage, film, television, theme parks, circuses, parades, fireworks displays, and beyond. The author outlines safeguards against hazardous materials such a theatrical paints, certain makeup, pigments, and solvents, and recommends protective measures for woodworking, welding, using fog and other special effects. Safety checklists, agencies to contact for help, and other important tips are included.

The Health & Safety Guide for Film, TV & Theater

With the information contained here artists can at last be free from fear and confusion to return to creativity in the safest, healthiest environment possible. “Vitally important.”—Library Journal If you are a painter, sculptor, printmaker, potter, welder, papermaker, photographer, or teacher in the arts, staying healthy and safe in your work place should not be a matter of circumstance. Through dozens of handy tables, diagrams, and charts, Monona Rossol’s essential book points out dangerous ingredients found in specific brands of paint, dye, and adhesives; simple supplies such as goggles and ladders that keep classrooms and studios safe; and steps that art educators can take to comply with OSHA regulations. This volume also details helpful and potentially life-saving subjects such as: <ul>
<li>Questions to ask when ordering art supplies </li>
<li>Recommendations for proper ventilation </li>
<li>Safe work practices </li>
<li>Precautions for individual media </li>
<li>Art materials and projects for children and other high risk individuals</li>
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 Not only artists, but those who work in school administration, health care, and risk analysis will benefit from the surprising facts revealed. For example, art and craft supplies labeled as biodegradable, water-based, and natural must be handled with utmost caution, because they can still contain highly toxic properties.

The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide

Study & Teaching

Allworth

This essential book, now in its second edition, has been expanded and updated to address new hazards, unique health and safety problems, and particular regulations that threaten anyone working in the entertainment industries today. Artists’ advocate Monona Rossol exposes the hazards of; <ul>
<li>Theatrical paints</li>
<li>Theatrical makeup</li>
<li>Plastics</li>
<li>Solvents</li>
<li>Asbestos</li>
<li>Theatrical fog</li>
<li>And much more!</li>
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 And she offers practical solutions to these dangers. No one working in the performing arts can afford to skip this handbook packed with life-or-death health and safety information.

The Health & Safety Guide for Film, TV & Theater, Second Edition

Business & Money

Industries

Safe use of art or craft materials requires awareness and training. A host of toxic industrial chemicals and environmental pollutants, including lead, cadmium, mercury, asbestos, cancer-causing dyes and pigments, and brain-damaging hydrocarbon solvents, are often found in these materials. The Artist’s Complete Health and Safety Guide, Fourth Edition, is the classic guide to using these potentially toxic materials safely and ethically. Additionally, this book is also designed to help art workers and teachers comply with applicable health and safety laws, including the new Globally Harmonized System for labelling as well as safety information adopted by most countries. Coverage includes: 
<li>Technical hazards information in plain language 
</li>
<li>Tables of data on art material ingredients 
</li>
<li>Steps to comply with health and safety laws 
</li>
<li>Safety checklists for studios and classrooms 
</li>
<li>Detailed descriptions of safe practices 
</li>
<li>Recommendations for proper protective equipment 
</li>
<li>Precautions for children, pregnant women, men and women planning families, and others who are susceptible to toxic substances</li>
 Newly revised with the most up-to-date information on safety requirements and protocols, The Artist’s Complete Health and Safety Guide is required reading for anyone who regularly uses or teaches with art and craft materials as well as for professionals who design or maintain art facilities.

The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide (Fourth Edition)

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