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eart of Vfrican BOOKSHELF chemical data bases such as the newly established Chemical Substances In formation Network {Chem. Eng., Nov. 2, p. 20) should be a boon in develop ing safer practices. Third, the book shows the fallacies inherent in adopting a shortsighted "do only what has to be done'1 attitude in dealing with hazardous chemicals. One example suffices: According to the authors, Hooker Chemical Co. knew years before Love Canal became a national issue that toxic chemicals were leaching from its former dumpsite. The concluding chapter, written by Mr. Nader, might do well in a polemic about corporate America (proposing, among other topics, the federal rather than state chartering of corporations, and stifTer laws for corporate crime), but does next to nothing in this book. With so many vital issues on toxic chemicals being intensively debated-- the inability of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish limits on priority pollutants in drinking water, the "how dean is dean" ques tion in neutralizing abandoned dumps under the Superfund, the pros and cons of indneration versus landfill ing --it is unfortunate that Mr. Nader chooses to sidestep these issues and instead roundly attack the philosophies and practices of chemical companies. Toward the end of his disputation, he asks rhetorically, "Are we really wed to dangerous chemicals? Some Carcinogens in Industry and the Environment Ed. by James M. Sontag Marcel Dekker, Inc,, 270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016. 761 pages. *79.50. Reviewed by L.L. Pointer, Senior Research Associate, Chevron Research Co., La Habra, California. The word "cancer" is without equal in its ability to generate fear, with its spectre of painful and lingering death. And no single issue has been so deeply mired in controversy as the attempt to link the increasing number of cardn- uses are frivolous; more than 10 mil lion tons of plastic are used each year merely for packaging." But this point raises another ques tion: Who is to dedde which uses are "frivolous" and which are essential? Debating abstract notions like these does little for the hard decisions that industry and society have to make on toxic-chemical use and control. ogens being identified in our environ ment to the occurrence of human can cer. This book contains 16 chapters that present a thorough and refresh ingly unemotional review of a highly emotional topic. The chapters are arranged in order of increasing spedfidty, beginning with broad introductory topics, such as the social and economic costs of cancer, and gradually narrowing down to sin gle topics, such as nitrogenous chemi cals and ionizing radiation. Review texts such as this arc often difficult to use as a reference. 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At rates up to 4,000 pounds per hour with a BartlettSnowm Tumble-Burner** rotary incinerator system. Write for bulletin B15. C-E Raymond, 200 W. Monroe, Chicago, IL 60606. EH RAYMOND COMBUSTION ENGINEERING INC weit CVcto 440 on Rsedar Service Cwd CHEMICAL EHOIN1EEWC WBEMIU 14. IHI CVrte 441 on nssrtsr Service Card 119 BOOKSHELF book's contents accessible by giving each chapter both an individual table of contents and a reference list, and then combining these into overall author and subject indexes. The singularly most useful and impressive chapter in the entire text is the herculean 120-page compilation by Yin-Tak Woo and Joseph C. Arcos of information on various suspect' chemicals, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nitrosamines. David Barringer Clayson's chapter discussing therapeutic drugs such as andmalarials and estrogens in light of the ques tion "Can the excess risk be justified if in the long run taking a therapeutic drug may induce cancer?" is very thought provoking. The text presents a balanced viewpoint, with the remaining chapters dis cussing both manmade and "natural" (e.g., background radiation) carcino gens. The only negative comment to be made here is that the chapter on the analysis of animal studies presumes a reader with a relatively extensive sta tistical background. It seems somewhat out of step with the general overview style of the rest of the chapters. This is No. 16 in the publisher's excellent Pollution Engineering and Technology series, edited by Paul M. Cheremisinoff. Unlike others in the series, however, this is not a design handbook and it does not offer any neat answers on how to remove or reduce the various carcinogens it dis cusses. The text does provide a read able and thorough overview of a seri ous and politically sensitive issue. Hie book can be used both by the technical specialist and the casual inquirer. It is a work that should definitely be included in any serious environmental collection. %IN RAPID REVIEW NIOSH/OSHA Occupational Health Guaddmet for Qwmicu Hanrii. Ed. by Frank W. Mackinson, R. Scott Stricoff and Lawrence 1. Partridge, Jr. Pub. by U.S. Dept, of Health and Human Services and U.S. Dept, of Labor. Order Stock No. 017-033-00337-8 directly from Supt. of Documents, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D C 20402 1981. 1,630 pages. Unbound 8`/ X 11-in. sheets punched for standard 3-ring binder. $30. The major feature of this massive work (the unbound pages weigh over 10 lb) consists of occupational health guidelines for about 300 individual chemicals. Anoth er hundred are still in preparation and will be issued as supplements to the present work. Each occupational health guideline consists (typically) of 4 to 6 pages that summarize data such as: permissible expo sure limit (pel); health hazard information (routes of exposure, effects of overexpo sure, recommended medical surveillance); chemical and physical properties (includ ing reactivity ana flammability); monitor ing and measurement procedures; respira tors; personal protective equipment; sanita tion; common operations and controls; emergency first aid procedures; spill, leak and disposal procedures; and references. Many of the guidelines also contain a table detailing requirements for respiratory pro tection for various concentrations of the chemical in air, as well as protection needed for fire fighting or for escape. p Cancer Causing Chemical*. By N. Irving Sax. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New'York. 460 pages. $39.95. The heart of this book is an extensive listing of 2,400 basic carcin ogenic chemicals, cross-referenced with 25,000 synonyms or related chemicals: Raymond' flash dryers dry non-abrasive material in to id seconds! Write for bulletin 786 today. CE Raymond, 200 W. Monroe, Chicago, IL 60606. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING. INC <Z 3D O un $ 003-aib Clrole 448 on Reeder Servtoe Card 120 aatooAL mom--iwc cscm>mi it mi Circle 448 on Reeder Servtoe Card tout. forced i sales, Cities . Berea. BOOKSHELF The entries are aided according to a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (niosh) identification number, and are rated for carcinogenicity by the "conclusive," "suggestive" and "in determinate." This rating is based on liter ature searches and niosh data, and is so complete, says the author, that "if the material you are interested in is not listed ... it is probably not known as a carcin ogen." Four "theoretical and philosoph ical" chapters at the front of the book present several co-authors' views on car cinogen control and other subjects. [The author's dank "Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials" (also published by Van Nostrand Reinhold) is in its fifth edition.| s<i|Bitvm of Health Huudi tn Indus try--A Review of Materials and Procease*. By William A. Burgess. WileyInterscience, New York. 1981. 275 pages. $27.50. The major part of this book com prises two sections. The first is concerned with industrial unit operations: abrasive blasting, arid and alkali cleaning of metals, electroplating, painting, welding and the like, the second part covers production facilities for such dungs as abranves, adds, ammonia, chlorine, fertilisers, glass, petro leum, plastics, pulp and paper, and rubber. In each of tne subsections, commonly encountered hoards are discussed. Patty's ladmtrial Hygiene and Toxicolo gy. 3rd revised ed. vol. 2A and 2B: Toxi cology. Ed. by George D. Clayton and Florence E. Clayton. Wiky-lntersrience, New York. 1981. Vol. 2A: 1,411 pages, $100; Vol. 2B: 937 pages, $70. The toxi cology lection of this revised edition will comprise three volumes, but only two are thus far available (Vol. 3C is expected in the spring). The editors have opted to print manuscripts as they arrived from the authors, so the volumes are not down in any way (e.g., organics vs. inor ganics). Vol. 2A covers metals; organic sulfur compounds; phosphorus, selenium and tellurium; epoxy compounds; esters; aromatic nitro and amino compounds; ethers; phenols and phenolic compounds; aldehydes and ***h; and heterocyclic and miscellaneous compounds. Vol. 2B covers occupational rarrinogenezu; the halogens and the nonmetalt, boron and silicon; alkaline materials; fluorine-containing or ganic compounds; tf-nitrosamines; aliphat ic hydrocarbons; alicydic hydrocarbons; aromatic hydrocarbons; halogenated ali phatic hydrocarbons containing chlorine, bromine and iodine; and halogenated cydk hydrocarbons. Hasardous Chcnab Dots ^*-4 Ed. bv G. Weiss. Noyes Data Corp., Mil) Road at Grand Ave., Park Ridge, NJ 07656. 1,188 pages. $64. About 1,350 hazardous chemi cals are covertd in this volume. The text consists of copies of data sheets issued as "chris--Hazardous Chemical Data," by the U.S. Dept, of Transportation, Coast Guard, and of "Material Safety Data Sheets--The Basis for Control of Toxic Chemicals," Vol. 1-3, by E. E. Kctchen and W. E. Porter of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, issued by the U.S. Dept, of Energy. If a chemical appears in both listings, only the CHRis data are shown. There is also an alphabetical index of all chemicals covered. Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Oxnaiok By Marshall Sittig. Noyes Publications, Mill Road at Grand Ave., Park Ridge, NJ 07656. 1981. 729 pages. $64. 11113 handbook contains chemical, health and safety information on almost 600 toxic and hazardous chemicals. The book attempts to answer the following six questions about each oT these chemicals: 1. What is it?; 2. Where does one encounter it?; 3. How much can one tolerate?; 4. How does one measure it?; 5. What are its harmful effects?; and 6. How does one protect against it? Managing Hazardous Suhwsnrrs Axxy dtaH By A1 J. Smith, Jr. McGraw-Hill, New York. 1981. 188 pages. $19.95. The four main sections of this volume cover; management, including legal problems and URL 05135 FOR JOBS OTHER PUMPS CANT HANDLE ... Slurries, suspended solids. acids, latexes Tuthill process pumps move materialsthrough the slow positive action of rotary pistons es shown in the diagrams. 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INC Circle 446 on Reeder Sendee Card 123 BOOKSHELF contingency planning; technology, includ ing the ways accidents occur and the ways that they are cleaned up; assistance sys tems, including the training of workers and places to get help; and public information, mostly on how to deal with the media. Much of the information comes from the author's experience at hundreds of acci dents and spills. *********~t Cbeoateak Safely--1980. Pub. by Dutch Asm. of Safety Experts, Dutch Chemical Industry Assn., and Dutch Safe ty Institute. Order by remitting the sum of 90 guilders (approx. $32.50) to the account of "hel Veiligheidsinstituut," Ac count No. 43.36.86.006 at the AMRO Bank in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I,013 pages. Flexible binding. Close to 900 chemicals are listed in this book (which is a translation of the Dutch "Chemiekaarten 1980"). For each chemi cal, there is a standard form, listing: physi cal properties; other characteristics; haaards/tymptoms; prevention; fire extin guishing agemt/fint aid; spillage; storage; packaging and labelling; and notes. The volume also contains a detailed explanation of how to interpret these standard forms, and includes an index. Lend hfaa and the Ewimnimsl By J. M. Ratdiffe, Ellis Norwood Ltd., Chi chester, U.K.; in U.S., distributed by Hlisted Press, div. of John Wiley A Sons, New York. 1981. 240 pages. $75.95. Part I, titled The Health Effects of Lead and Their Evaluation, goes into considerable detail on lead's effects on various organs. Part II, Sources of Lead in Man and Their Control, covers lead in the environment and the contribution of ingested and inhaled lead, then surveys blood leadlevels, and gives control strategies for con trolling lead. Hardmu WaWe Regulations--An In terpretive Guide. By Alex Mallow. Van Nestnnd Reinhold, New York. 1961. 403 pages. $40. Hazardous waste regulations fill 150 pages of the Federal Register, with three cohunns per page. Thus, finding specific details can be an overwhelming chore. This book provides a guide to help the user search out the pertinent and appli cable segments of this lengthy and complex law Out will apply to his own plant's operation. Dictionary of Dangerous Pollutants, Ecology, and Environment. By David F. Tver, industrial Press Inc., 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10157. 1981. 347 pages. $24.50. Terms are covered in the hekb of air and water pollution; noise pollution; nuclear, geothermal and solar energy; solar design and construction; coal, coal gasification; waste control; biomass conversion; recycling; ecology, meteorology and climatology. Contact: Taxi*--A Guide to Specialists on Toxic Substances. Ed. By Richard L. Penberthy, others. Pub. by, and order directly from: World Environment Center, 300 Cast 42nd $l, New York, NY 10017. 1960. 174 pages. Paperback. $49.50. Experts on toxic substances are classified by their various fields of specialization (e.g., aerosol propellants, asbestos, automo biles), with each field broken down in various ways. The heading "Chemical manufacturing'1 is subdivided into air pol lution; environmental transport; legal; public health; recycling; spills and cleanup; waste disposal; water pollution; and work place safety. Managing Chemical Waste--What We're Done About It. A 20-page booklet pre- by the Chemical Manufacturers Assn, to describe what the chemical indus try is doing to minimize and otherwise properly handle and dtpn* of chemical waste. There is a discussion of federal regulatory involvement, ^uperfund," new technologies that show promise in alleviat ing problems, waste exchange programs, and so on. Single copies are free. Write: Chemical Manufacturers Assn., Commu nications Dept., 2501 M St,, N.W., Washington, DC 20037. 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