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DESCRIPTION:“A gripping new book…”—The Economist\n\n“Mark Schapiro, an 
 investigative journalist, says in his book, Exposed…that American 
 consumers are more at risk than their European counterparts. Besides that, 
 he says, the European Union is also gaining the upper hand in regulating 
 the behavior of multinational corporations, and is thus amassing more 
 economic power.”—New York Times\n\nMark Schapiro is the editorial 
 director of the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley. He has 
 written on foreign affairs for Harper’s, The Atlantic, The New York Times 
 Magazine, and The Nation, and worked as a correspondent for the PBS 
 newsmagazine Frontline/WORLD and the public radio show 
 Marketplace.\n\nMichael Pollan is a Professor of Journalism at the 
 University of California at Berkeley. Pollan is a contributing writer for 
 The New York Times magazine, a former executive editor of Harper’s 
 Magazine. He is the author of four books, including “The Omnivore’s 
 Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.”\n\nTickets: $10 advance, $13 
 door. Students with ID: $5 (at door only). Available at independent 
 bookstores (East Bay: Analog Books, Cody’s, Black Oak, DIESEL, A 
 Bookstore, Pegasus, Pendragon, Global Exchange store, Walden Pond, Moe’s 
 Books; San Francisco: Modern Times)\nTelephone ticket order: 415.255.7296 
 X253\nWeb Order (starting Nov. 14): 
 www.globalexchange.org/markschapiro\n\nBenefits: Global Exchange\nSupported 
 by: KPFA\n	\nIn “Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products: 
 What's At Stake for American Power,” Mark Schapiro does to huge swaths of 
 the consumer landscape what Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation did to the 
 assembly-line version of a burger and fries.\n \nSchapiro takes readers 
 inside a global power shift that has gone almost wholly unreported in the 
 United States. While the U.S. chemical industry continues to thwart 
 stricter protections of our health and environment, the European Union is 
 forcing these same global firms to develop safer products—at least for 
 Europeans. Increasingly, products developed and sold in the United States 
 are equated with serious health hazards linked to toxic chemicals, the same 
 hazards that the EU is legislating out of existence. Schapiro reveals how 
 the U.S. is not only becoming a dumping ground for products banned 
 elsewhere, thus endangering the health of Americans, but is losing its 
 economic edge in the process and becoming increasingly isolated as even 
 countries like China and others take their cues from the Europeans. 
 \n\nExposed is a revealing and fascinating look at global markets, everyday 
 products and the toxic chemicals that bind them. It will shock, inform and 
 warn Americans, and their business and political leaders, about the risks 
 of being left behind in the worldwide effort to protect citizens from 
 environmental hazards. \n\nThe EU is rapidly replacing the United States as 
 the world’s environmental leader—and leaving the U.S. increasingly 
 isolated, retreating from environmental protection while the rest of the 
 world moves ahead.\n\nIt’s a shift that is already having enormous impact 
 on the health and safety of Americans, as well as the health of the U.S. 
 economy. \n\nHe shines a light on Europe's evolving search for higher 
 standards that has allowed Brussels, and not Washington, to emerge as the 
 center for global market innovation in the twenty-first 
 century.\n\nExploring recent changes in the European Union—where stricter 
 consumer safety standards have forced multinationals into manufacturing 
 safer products—Shapiro’s exposé shows that short of strong government 
 intervention, America will lose whatever claim it has to commercial 
 supremacy. Increasingly, its products are equated with serious health 
 hazards, the same hazards that the European Parliament is legislating out 
 of existence in its powerful trading block.\n \nShapiro's revelations will 
 spark a sea change in the way American consumers think about everyday 
 products—from plastic softeners that can contribute to sexual 
 malformations to lipstick additives that are potential toxins to the brain, 
 liver, kidneys, and immune system. And it will change our view of the 
 future of environmentalism and the roles we can play in protecting 
 ourselves from a variety of hidden dangers.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/31/18457453.php
SUMMARY:Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power
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