Lourie and Smith expose the extent to which Americans are poisoned every day, from the simple household dust that is polluting their blood to the toxins in their urine that are created by run-of-the-mill shampoos and toothpaste.

Reviews

Praise for "Slow Death by Rubber Duck"
"Beware the smiling creature in your bathtub: it's yellow, it squeaks, your kids love it, and it gets into your bloodstream--literally." --"High Country News"
"Enviro-porn." --Forbes.com
"Undertaking a cheeky experiment in self-contamination, professional Canadian environmentalists Smith and Lourie expose themselves to hazardous everyday substances, then measure the consequences . . . Throughout, the duo weave scientific data and recent political history into an amusing but unnerving narrative, refusing to sugarcoat any of the data (though protection is possible, exposure is inevitable) while maintaining a welcome sense of humor." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
""Slow Death by Rubber Duck"'s real achievement is in documenting how chemical giants stay a step ahead of regulators, and those revelations make the book a fascinating and frightening read." --"The Week"
""Slow Death by Rubber Duck" . . . isn't just alarmist environmental shock and awe. It's a thoughtful look at how pollution has shifted over the years from something tangible and transparent (industrial pollutants as the cause of acid rain) to something abstract and nuanced (BPA's links to breast cancer). The challenges this change presents, as many of the world's top scientists explain in these pages, should be of serious concern to us all." --"O: The Oprah Magazine"
""Slow Death by Rubber Duck" is hard-hitting in a way that turns your stomach and yet also instills hope for a future in which consumers make safer, more informed choices and push their governments to impose tougher regulations on the chemicals all around us." --"The Washington Post"
"This is one scary book. Using a variety of test methods, the authors determined individual 'body burdens, ' or the toxic chemical load we carry. The innocuous rubber duck, for example, offers a poison soup of phthalates that 'permeate the environment and humans.' From o