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, Volume 4; Volume 66

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Page 38 - Whereas it is estimated that 50 million Americans are affected each year by disorders and disabilities that involve the brain, including the major mental illnesses; inherited and degenerative diseases; stroke; epilepsy; addictive disorders; injury resulting from prenatal events, environmental neurotoxins and trauma; and speech, language, hearing and other cognitive disorders; Whereas it is estimated that treatment, rehabilitation and related costs of disorders and disabilities that affect the brain...
Page 12 - 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 45 - Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, and the...
Page 159 - 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 153 - 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 14 - 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 36 - 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 141 - Greenhouse," which assumes that all unseen studies simply are not significant at the .06 level. Under this assumption, it would require 16 and 36 studies to dilute the finding for the tooth lead group and the blood lead group, respectively. Given the expense of conducting human studies of lead exposure and the amount of attention directed to this question, it is unlikely that this number of negative studies have escaped notice. Power Calculations The studies included in this metaanalysis are observational.
Page 151 - ... 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 150 - ... child under age 16 working on a non-family farm is allowed to drive a tractor with an engine over 20 horsepower or to handle or apply Category I or II pesticides and herbicides (ie, those most acutely toxic). There are many positive aspects of work for children, but there are also significant hazards. These fall into two categories: (a) threats to education and development, and (b) risks of injury, illness, and toxic exposure. One of the principal hazards of child labor is interference with school...

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