Date of Original Version
Summer 1989
Type
Article
Published In
Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy 1989, Summer 1989, 93-95.
Abstract or Table of Contents
The United States uses about 60,000 chemical substances to produce the products and services the nation uses. Many of these chemicals have toxic properties that result in cancer, birth defects, mutations, or other chronic diseases. Although pre-industrial economies existed without synthetic chemicals, no advanced economy can exist without them.