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In the words of an environmental activist whose words aligned with the either-or risk formula, this means that 'you don’t even have to show a health effect. If you’re showing that these chemicals are getting into my body, that trespass is unauthorized.' This perspective counters the chemical industry’s argument that exposure levels are too low to present a risk. In the words of an environmental health activist, 'companies can dish all they want about how these levels are not significant and they’re not very high, and this and that. But it’s just an indefensible position. These chemicals shouldn’t be in our bodies, period.' This then becomes an ethical argument about consent and right to know, of 'environmental outrage' in addition to an argument about toxicity and health effects. This type of exposure experience is associated with increased knowledge about personal chemical exposure as a form of risk awareness.

Cordner, Alissa. 2016. Toxic Safety: Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health. Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/cord17146.


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