Environmental Toxins and Children: Exploring the Risks : Hearing Before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 Presents the report of a series of hearings on environmental toxins and the risks to children, examining the best available evidence about children's vulnerability to environmental toxins and the concern about child health and safety. Some of the toxins discussed are lead poisoning, pesticides and their residues, asbestos in schools, and other agriculturally related toxins effecting children in rural and low-income areas. |
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... consume a disproportionate amount of the toxin . Moreover , as a proportion of all the food they eat , children tend to consume greater amounts of food that contain toxins , thus multiplying the potential risk . Among the chief ...
... consume a disproportionate amount of the toxin . Moreover , as a proportion of all the food they eat , children tend to consume greater amounts of food that contain toxins , thus multiplying the potential risk . Among the chief ...
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... consume a disproportionate amount of the toxin . Moreover , as a proportion of all the food they eat , children tend to consume greater amounts of food that contain toxins , thus multiplying the potential risk . Pesticides on food home ...
... consume a disproportionate amount of the toxin . Moreover , as a proportion of all the food they eat , children tend to consume greater amounts of food that contain toxins , thus multiplying the potential risk . Pesticides on food home ...
Page 40
... consume the fruits and vegetables that comes out of his valley . So I think what he was trying to say is that the laws are not being enforced . And how to ensure them is by , from the County to the State level , the lack of resources or ...
... consume the fruits and vegetables that comes out of his valley . So I think what he was trying to say is that the laws are not being enforced . And how to ensure them is by , from the County to the State level , the lack of resources or ...
Page 77
... consume on a weight basis ) , and although exposures to cancer- causing agents early in life carry greater lifetime risks than late exposures . EPA's failure to act in a health protective manner was due , in part , to a lack of good ...
... consume on a weight basis ) , and although exposures to cancer- causing agents early in life carry greater lifetime risks than late exposures . EPA's failure to act in a health protective manner was due , in part , to a lack of good ...
Page 78
... consuming these potatoes and about the manufacturer's merely temporary suspension of this use . the Select Committee's permission , I would like to enter into the hearing record the American Academy of Pediatrics ' letter to the EPA on ...
... consuming these potatoes and about the manufacturer's merely temporary suspension of this use . the Select Committee's permission , I would like to enter into the hearing record the American Academy of Pediatrics ' letter to the EPA on ...
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