Children's Health, Susceptibility, and Regulatory Approaches to Reducing Risks from Chemical Carcinogens.

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: February 1, 2001| Author: Charnley, Gail; Putzrath, Resha M. | Copyright information

Risk-based regulation of chemical exposures from the environment generally relies on assumptions about the extent of people's susceptibility to chemically induced diseases. Those assumptions are intended to be health-protective; that is, they err on the side of overstating susceptibility. Recent concern about children's special susceptibilities has led to proposals that would make risk-based regulations one-tenth more stringent, unless data are available to refute the assumption th...

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