Ecotoxicity : responsibilities and opportunities / Ross H. Hall, Donald A. Chant.: En93-8/1979E-PDF

"Society has created a vast chemical industry that affects all aspects of our life, so much so that without chemicals our technological lifestyles would grind to a halt. The industry now generates for every inhabitant of North America over one ton of chemicals a year, comprising more than 60,000 different substances. This immense production, in some form, eventually ends up in the environment. And by their every nature, once in the environment, chemicals penetrate living organisms, creating a generalized phenomenon that we call ecotoxicity. It is an insidious form of toxicity because, by virtue of interdependence, the life-support systems of all living organisms become toxic"--Abstract.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Environment Canada.
Canadian Environmental Advisory Council.
Title Ecotoxicity : responsibilities and opportunities / Ross H. Hall, Donald A. Chant.
Series title Report (Canadian Environmental Advisory Council) ; no. 8
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-24).
Publishing information Ottawa, Canada : Canadian Environmental Advisory Council, August 1979.
Author / Contributor Hall, Ross Hume, 1926- author.
Description 1 online resource (vi, 32 pages).
Catalogue number
  • En93-8/1979E-PDF
Subject terms Pollution
Environmental protection
Toxicology
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