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Trying to be wise before the event

Nature volume 336, pages 723–724 (1988)Cite this article

In Search of Safety: Chemicals and Cancer Risk.

By John D. Graham, Laura C. Green and Marc J. Roberts Harvard University Press:1988. Pp.336. $35, £27.95. Living in a Chemical World: Occupational and Environmental Significance of Industrial Carcinogens. Edited by Cesare Maltoni and Irving J. Selikoff The New York Academy of Sciences: 1988. Pp.1,045. Soft cover $260, £140.50.

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