Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children. This item is unavailable.Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children

Looks at the prevalence of toxic chemicals in the food supply, household cleaners, water systems, and other ordinary aspects of modern life, following the money trail to expose the direct link between the chemical industry and the growth in childhood disease and disabilities and presenting strategies to help parents protect their children and force change in corporate America. 30,000 first printing.

Philip Shabecoff was the chief environmental correspondent for The New York Times for fourteen of the thirty-two years he worked there as a reporter. After leaving the Times, he founded and published Greenwire, an online daily digest of environmental news. He has appeared on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Washington Week in Review, CNN News, C-Span, National Public Radio, and the BBC. For his environmental writing, Shabecoff was selected as one of the “Global 500” by the United Nations’ Environmental Program.

Alice Shabecoff is a freelance journalist focusing on family and consumer topics. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and the International Herald Tribune, among other publications. She was executive director of the National Consumers League, the country’s oldest consumer organization, and executive director of the national nonprofit Community Information Exchange.