The Dirty Dozen : Toxic Chemicals and The Earth's Future 
Bruce E. Johansen 
 - London   Amber Book Ltd.  2003 
 - 297p. 
<br/><br/> Forty years after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this important study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. All have been fully or partially banned by the Stockholm Protocol, an international treaty signed by about 120 countries in December 2000. Among the twelve are the dioxins (the active ingredient in Agent Orange) and polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs), which are toxic in minute quantities.... 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-0313361418  Rs.3021.60 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.7384   / JOH