Children's health and the environment: public health issues and challenges for risk assessment.(Assessing risks in children: mini-monograph)

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: February 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Infants and children are not little adults. They are uniquely vulnerable to environmental toxicants. To protect infants and children against toxicants, the National Research Council in 1993 called for development of an approach to risk assessment that considers children's unique patterns of exposure and their special vulnerabilities to pesticides. Many aspects of that call were codified into federal law in the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996. This report highlights the central elements needed for development of a child-protective approach to risk assessment: a) improved ...

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