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Ounce of Prevention

Cleaner chemicals pay off, but industry is slow to invest

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W. Wayt Gibbs is a contributing editor for Scientific American based in Seattle. He also works as a scientific editor at Intellectual Ventures.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 271 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “Ounce of Prevention” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 271 No. 5 (), p. 103
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1194-103