Protecting Children's Health
Local Children's Health Information Local Children's Health Resources Protecting Children from Lead in Drinking Water at Schools and Child Care Centers. ( en Español ) |
Protecting our youngest and most sensitive citizens is a top priority. Today there are nearly 9 million children in EPA Region 2, and the numbers are increasing. Children are at greater risk than their parents to toxic environmental pollutants. They face numerous environmental threats to their health and development. Proportionately they breathe more air, drink more water, and eat more food, pound for pound. They also have behavior patterns and natural curiosity that can put them in harms way, which can increase their exposure to pollutants. Additionally, their bodily systems are still developing, and they are less able to metabolize, detoxify and excrete these pollutants than adults.
EPA Children's Health Pages, Resources and Contacts
National
EPA Office of Children's Health Protection Web site
This Web site is a national source for the latest information
on protecting children from environmental hazards. The site details
recent EPA activities in the field of Children's Health, and provides
links to over 50 organizations and other government agencies working on
behalf of children.
Non-EPA Children's Health Pages The Children's Environmental
Health Network Children's Health
Insurance |
Office of
Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances: Protecting Our Children
This Web site presents various documents that discuss
how to protect children from toxins, lead, the sun, and other potential
environmental health threats.
Healthy School Environments
The Healthy School Environments Web pages are intended to serve as a gateway
to on-line resources to help facility managers, school administrators,
architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, teachers and staff
address environmental health issues in schools.
K-12 Guidance Manuals
The Healthy School Environments Web pages are intended to serve as a gateway
to on-line resources to help facility managers, school administrators,
architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, teachers and staff
address environmental health issues in schools.
Fish consumption
advisory for mothers and children
The Food and Drug Administration and the EPA have isued a unified consumer
advisory on mercury in fish and shellfish. The new fish consumption guidelines
are for young children, nursing mothers, pregnant women, and women who
may become pregnant. This revises and unifies advice from FDA and EPA
and supersedes FDA's 2001 advisory.