RT Book, Section
A1 Wilson, Michael P.
A1 Schwarzman, Megan R.
A2 LaDou, Joseph
A2 Harrison, Robert J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1104108325
T1 International Chemicals Policy, Health, & Human Rights
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment:  Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 5e
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071808156
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104108325
RD 2024/04/19
AB Over  the  last  150  years,  the  chemical  industry  has  played  a  key  role  in  the  global  economy.  The  industry's  contributions  to  economic  growth,  employment,  and  improvements  in  life  expectancy,  health,  and  living  conditions  in  Western-style  societies  are  widely  recognized.  Chemicals  are  a  basic  building  block  for  nearly  all  industrial  and  productive  activity,  and  they  appear  in  millions  of  chemically  formulated  products,  consumer  products,  and  durable  goods.  Ninety  percent  of  the  approximately  100,000  chemicals  produced  by  the  chemical  industry  and  used  commercially  are  made  using  oil,  and  in  the  space  of  just  over  50  years,  those  chemicals  have  come  to  constitute  the  material  basis  of  society.