Toxic Chemicals and Children's Health in North America

New report out by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation on the impact of industrial chemical on children's health.

20.06.2006 |Sascha Gabizon

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has just released a new report titled: Toxic Chemicals and Childrens Health in North America: A Call for Efforts to Determine the Sources, Levels of Exposure, and Risks that Industrial Chemicals Pose to Childrens Health.

A new report by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation profiles childrens health and the relative risk of industrial chemicals. Using pollution data from Canada and the United States, the report focuses on chemicals associated with cancer, neurological and developmental damage, as well as learning and behavioral changes. The report utilizes a toxicity weighting methodology to highlight the relative risk of these chemicals compared to standard volume information. This report is available on the EC website using the following link.