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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
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- ISBN: 292335835X (print)
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1 electronic text (ix, 82 p.) : ill., digital file. - Publisher: Montreal, Que. : Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Secretariat. Communications Department, 2006
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| General Note: | Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-53). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Children in North America -- Sources of information -- Analysis of the releases of carcinogens, developmental toxicants and neurotoxicants in North America -- Interpreting PRTR data -- Many actions are underway to reduce chemical loadings to the environment -- Future actions are needed -- Introduction -- Children's health overview -- Children are uniquely vulnerable to many 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 -- 1. Children in North America. 1.1. Demographics; 1.2. Causes of death in North American children; 1.3. Diseases related to environmental pollution affecting North American children -- 2. Types, exposures and potential health impacts of chemicals. 2.1. Types of chemicals; 2.2. Chemical sources; 2.3. Chemical exposures; 2.4. Potential health impacts; 2.5. The universe of chemicals: what we know and what we don't know; 2.6. Understanding chemicals' potential risks to children -- 3. Releases of chemicals: data from industrial pollutant release and transfer registers. 3.1. Overview; 3.2. PRTR analysis; 3.3. Findings from the PRTR health effects approach; 3.4. Chemicals of concern to children's health; 3.5. Emerging issues. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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