Toxic chemicals and children's health in North America
Subtitle: a call for efforts to determine the sources, levels of exposure, and risks that industrial chemicals pose to children's health
By: Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
Contributors: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec)
Publisher: Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Environmental health -- North America; Pollutants -- Environmental aspects -- North America; Children -- Health risk assessment -- North America; Children -- Health and hygiene -- North America
Other titles: Toxic chemicals and children's health in North America (Online)
Notes: "May 2006".

Includes bibliographical references (p.47-53).

Also available via the Internet.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Introduction; title: Children's health overview; title: Children are uniquely vulnerable to many chemicals; title: Children have "windows of vulnerability"; title: Why a North American report on toxic chemicals and children's health?; title: Pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs): a source of information on chemicals from industrial activities; title: Methods and scope of this report; title: Children in North America; title: Demographics; title: Causes of death in North American children; title: Diseases related to environmental pollution affecting North American children; title: Types, exposures and potential health impacts of chemicals; title: Types of chemicals; title: Chemical sources; title: Chemical exposures; title: Potential health impacts; title: The universe of chemicals: what we know and what we don't know; title: Understanding chemicals' potential risks to children; title: Releases of chemicals: data from industrial pollutant release and transfer registers; title: Overview; title: PRTR analysis; title: Findings from the PRTR health effects approach; title: Chemicals of concern to children's health; title: Emerging issues; title: Actions to protect children's health from toxic chemicals; title: Overview; title: International action to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals; title: National and trilateral action to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals; title: Looking forward: actions to reduce toxic chemicals and protect children's health.