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 2U.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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Page 44 - Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, and the...
Page 158 - More than half (52. 5%) [of those injured] die without ever reaching a physician; an additional 19.1% die in transit to a hospital, and only 7.4% live long enough to receive inpatient care. The most common cause of fatal and nonfatal injury is farm machinery. Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
Page 152 - Pennsylvania, where seventy-five thousand textile workers were on strike. Of this number at least ten thousand were little children. The workers were striking for more pay and shorter hours. Every day little children came into Union Headquarters, some with their hands off, some with the thumb missing, some with their fingers off at the knuckle. They were stooped little things, round shouldered and skinny.
Page 11 - While lead is a poison that affects virtually every system in the body, it is particularly harmful to the developing brain and nervous system of fetuses and young children, particularly those up to age five.
Page 13 - Development Act (WRDA); its responsibilities include the development of a comprehensive plan for restoring, preserving and protecting the south Florida ecosystem, and the coordination of related research. The...
Page 148 - ... delivering newspapers, and the rural child working on a neighbor's farm. Illegal child labor is also widespread. Despite the popular belief that this problem was remedied long ago, illegal child labor has persisted in the United States and appears, in fact, to be on the rise (41). Four-year-olds "help out...
Page 35 - Subsections (b)(2), (c)(2), (d), and (e) shall apply to actions taken under this subsection. (s) SAVINGS CLAUSE. — Nothing in this section shall be construed to amend or modify the provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act or the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.
Page 150 - ... an inspected and registered car to drive on public roads, a farm vehicle need not have a certificate of inspection and can be driven on the road by anyone, including a child too young for a license. Even less is known about the incidence and severity of illness than about injury in working children. Although it is recognized that young workers are exposed occupationally to substances known to be hazardous to adults, including pesticides in agriculture, almost no studies have...
Page 34 - Neurotoxic substances are chemicals that adversely affect the structure or the function of the nervous system. The nervous system includes the brain, the spinal cord, and the vast array of nerves and sensory organs that control major body functions.
Page 113 - ... recently reported that 12 percent of the 63 million children under the age of 18 in the US suffer from one or more mental disorders. It identified exposure to toxic substances before or after birth as one of several risk factors that appear to make certain children vulnerable to these disorders.27 Currently, Federal regulations do not require than any pesticide be evaluated for the effects of low-level exposure on behavior, including such processes as learning ability, activity level and memory,...