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Title	Toxic chemicals and children's health in North America : a call for efforts to determine the sources, levels of exposure, and risks that industrial chemicals pose to children's health
Subject	Environmental health--North America. Pollutants--Environmental aspects--North America. Children--Health risk assessment--North America. Children--Health risk assessment--Canada. Children--Health risk assessment--Mexico. Children--Health risk assessment--United States. Children--Health and hygiene--North America.
Rights	This work may be protected by copyright. It was originally published on the free Web and has been harvested for preservation purposes under a claim of fair use. Please consult the work itself for additional statements regarding copyright ownership and permissions.
Description	"May 2006."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-53).; Harvested from the web on 10/19/07
Publisher	Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America
Contributors	Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec)
Format	application/pdf
URL-Identifier	292335835X; 9782923358352; http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/request?id%3Doclcnum%3A68963321
Language	eng
Relation	Also available online at http://www.cec.org/files/PDF/POLLUTANTS/CHE%5FToxics%5Fen.pdf and in the OCLC Digital Archive (harvested on Oct. 19, 2007).; http://www.cec.org/files/PDF/POLLUTANTS/CHE%5FToxics%5Fen.pdf; http://www.cec.org/pubs%5Fdocs/documents/index.cfm?varlan=english&ID=1965
Description-Table Of Contents	Executive summary -- Introduction -- Children's health overview -- Children are uniquely vulnerable to chemicals -- Children have "Windows of Vulnerability" -- Why a North American Report on Toxic Chemicals and Children's Health? -- Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs): a source of information on chemicals from industrial activities -- Methods and scope of this report -- Children in North America -- Demographics -- Causes of death in North American children -- Diseases related to environmental pollution affecting North American Children -- Types, Exposures and potential health impacts of chemicals -- Types of chemicals -- Chemical sources -- Chemical exposures -- Potential health impacts -- The universe of chemicals: what we know and what we don't know -- Understanding chemicals' potential risks to children -- Releases of chemicals: data from industrial pollutant release and transfer registers -- Overview -- PRTR analysis -- Findings from the PRTR health effects approach -- Chemicals of concern to Children's health -- Emerging issues -- Actions to protect children's health from toxic chemicals -- Overview -- International action to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals -- National and trilateral action to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals -- Looking forward: actions to reduce toxic chemicals and protect children's health.
Format-Extent	ix, 82 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
PDI.ObjectLocator.Original	http://www.cec.org/files/PDF/POLLUTANTS/CHE%5FToxics%5Fen.pdf
Copyright-Statement	This work may be copyrighted or have other restrictions on use. Please contact your librarian if you have questions on the uses of this material.
OCLC number	68963321

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