From Chelsea Green, the Publisher:

"Exposed will open your eyes to a global economic power shift that could have dramatic repercussions for U.S. businesses and consumers.

In contrast to what they tell U.S. consumers and regulators, corporations intent on thwarting stricter environmental and health guidelines here at home are profitably meeting new demands by the European Union to improve their products. As a result, a new economic model is being developed, industries are revamping, and they are financially succeeding. In Exposed, Mark Schapiro takes the reader inside this power shift that has gone almost wholly unreported in the United States. Europe’s evolving search for higher standards places Brussels, not Washington, at the center of global market innovation in the twenty-first century.

Exploring recent changes in the European Union—where stricter consumer safety regulations have forced multinationals into manufacturing safer products—Schapiro’s exposé shows that short of strong government intervention, the United States will lose whatever claim it has to commercial supremacy. Increasingly, its products are equated with serious health hazards--hazards that the powerful E.U. trading block is legislating out of existence in a lead that even China is beginning to follow.

Schapiro’s revelations will spark a sea change in the way U.S. consumers think about everyday products—from plastic softeners that can contribute to sexual malformations to cosmetics additives that are potential toxins to the liver, kidneys, and endocrine system. This important book will also change our view of the future of environmental and public health principles on the national and global stage, and the roles we can play in protecting ourselves from a variety of hidden dangers."