It seemed like a small, easy mistake to make at the time: a couple of bags of a toxic industrial chemical accidentally ended up in the rations of Michigan's dairy cows. And it seems like a long time ago, which it was: 1973. But the horrific tale Joyce Egginton so masterfully tells in The Poisoning of Michigan is about the profound dangers that our dysfunctional regulatory system for such chemicals still poses to the health of our citizens and our planet to this very day. ---Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group<BR><BR>Incidents of industrial chemicals finding their way into the human food supply by accident or malice are not rare. However, the level of sheer incompetence and unbridled conflict of interest resulting in the widespread permeation of the food supply in the Michigan PBB tragedy in 1973/4 are unparalleled. Joyce Egginton's insightful and comprehensive depiction of The Poisoning of Michigan reminds us of these events and provides the basis for better decisions by government and industry in future crises. ---Larry Robertson, Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Toxicology, University of Iowa<BR><BR>The Poisoning of Michigan is a story we ignore at our peril. Joyce Egginton's gripping reporting of the largest chemical contamination of food and the people who consumed it in our history is meticulously told through the voices of those involved, including those whose lives and families were turned upside down. Egginton's book reminds us that a public health and environmental disaster of unfathomable proportions not only can happen, it in fact did happen. Even more sobering today, however, is the realization that many of the protections which arose out of this tragedy have been weakened, set aside or simply left unfunded since that fateful day when Michigan cattle feed was mistakenly contaminated with PBBs. Everyone in Michigan owes it to our children to assure that the lessons of The Poisoning of Michigan are relearned and that politicians, agencies and corporate interests are never allowed to cause or simply sit by in the face of such a disaster again. ---Anne Woiwode, State Director, Sierra Club Michigan Chapter