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This book evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by arsenic and arsenic compounds. Arsenic is widely distributed in the earth's crust and is emitted into the atmosphere by coal-fired power generation plants and volcanic activity. Inorganic arsenic of geological origin is found in groundwater, which is used as drinking-water in several parts of the world, e.g. Bangladesh. In these areas, drinking-water is the main source of arsenic intake, but elsewhere food is the principal source. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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A disclaimer on on of the first pages notes that none of the mentioned organizations are actually responsible for anything in the text, the recognition of legal status of disputed territories, or the endorsement of mentioned products. The book costs 108 Swiss francs (75.60 Sw.fr. in developing countries). One wonders why some entrepreneur in a developing country didn't buy a bunch of the books and then resell them for (say) 90 Sw.Fr.
OK, now that the preliminaries are out of the way, what we have here is a voluminous (500+ pages) paperback that apparently took every arsenic study known to the editors, abstracted it, organized the results in categories, and printed it without any attempt to assess the value of the individual works. This makes the book a gold mine for nutbars who want ammunition for the chemical hysteria of the week, since you can easily find a statement that supports any particular harmful effect you want to assign to arsenic.
Example: You want arsenic to cause stillbirths? Page 329 - "A hospital case-controlled study investigated the occurrence of stillbirths in relation to residential proximity to an arsenical pesticide production plant in Texas. An increasing ... trend in the risks of stillbirths was observed." Just edit out that little ellipsis (which was the words "but not significant"), append the words "The World Health organization reports" to the front of the sentence, and you have a ready-made press release for your antiarsenic campaign.
This is not to say that the work is not a valuable reference as a bibliography to studies of arsenic - but it's only a start and it's so easy to use it as an end. (to be fair, if you wanted you could go through the book and cull numerous references to the harmlessness of arsenic, too).
A find it a little disconcerting that this is just one of (number 224, to be exact)numerous studies of "chemicals", ranging from Acetaldehydes (#167) to Xylenes (#190). I can only assume yttrium and zirconium will make the list eventually. Some of the "chemicals" included are "Electromagnetic fields" (#137), "Lasers and optical radiation" (#23), and "Tobacco use" (#211). I suspect organizations like the NRDC have a complete set of these and can trundle out a barrage of "studies" every time there's a slow news week. What a world. ( )