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Medical and environmental specialists have become increasingly concerned with the rapid development and subsequent marketing of newly produced chemicals. The U.S. Surgeon General’s report Healthy People (1979) says, “more than 4 million chemical compounds are now recognized; more than 60,000 are commercially produced; about 1,000 are introduced each year.”
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Senn, C.L. (1982). The Firemaster Incident. In: Jelliffe, E.F.P., Jelliffe, D.B. (eds) Adverse Effects of Foods. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3359-3_12
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