San Antonio College Library

This is the story of how the Food and Drug Administration failed in its mission to protect the national health during the years of the Reagan-Bush presidencies. Undeterred by the FDA's notorious secretiveness and its penchant for treating critics as pariahs, the novelist and investigative journalist Herbert Burkholz has unearthed a wealth of damning information about the FDA. The book shows how a decade of indifference turned this vital agency responsible...

Barry Stone, consumer advocate and home inspector, discusses how to use the home inspection process to its fullest, including finding qualified inspectors, and negotiating repairs after the inspection.

"Helps you troubleshoot all the parts of a home--from the roof to the foundation."--Back cover.

The API Individual Certification Programs (ICP) are well established in the oil/gas/petroleum industries. API runs multiple examination sites around the world at 6-monthly intervals. The three main ICPs are: API 570: Certified pipework inspector; API 510: Certified pressure vessel inspector; API 653: Certified storage tank inspector.

Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. The author's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. This book examines the period before the publication of Rachel Carson's famous 'Silent Spring', tracing the origins of...