Table of Contents
Preface.
1 Your Body is a Chemistry Experiment: Have We Given Ourselves Diabetes, Autism, and Cancer?
2 Dying for Your (Child’s) Art: Why Nontoxic Doesn’t Mean “Not Toxic”.
3 Calling a Product Green Doesn’t Make it Stop Being Poison: The Chemical Substitution Game.
4 All-Natural Doesn’t Mean Safe, Either: Mother Nature Is Out to Get You.
5 Why Not Just Use Soap?: You versus the Environment.
6 Of Wall Paint and Face Paint: How Labels Can Mislead You.
7 You Have the Right to Know: How the MSDS Can Help You Protect Yourself (When No One Else Will).
8 Your Air Filter May Be Polluting Your Air: Understanding Chemical Exposure.
9 Silver Socks Rocked by Toxic Shocker! Our Weak Worker and Consumer Protection Laws.
10 Chemicals Known to the state of California A Political Action Plan.
11 Don’t Drive Yourself Crazy: Thirteen Reasonable Ways to Change Today.
Acknowledgments.
Appendix A: Detergent Additives.
Appendix B: Evaluating The Material safety Data Sheet.
Appendix C: New York Disclosure Amendment.
Notes.
Index.