Environmental Contaminants
Pollutants or contaminants that can affect the health of children can be found in air, water, food, and soil. This section includes measures for contaminants in these media. Most of the measures show the percentages of children who may be at risk from exposure to critical concentrations of pollutants.
- Outdoor Air Pollutants
- Indoor Air Pollutants
- Drinking Water Contaminants
- Pesticide Residues
- Land Contaminants
- Topic Background
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Outdoor Air Pollutants
Measure E1: Percentage of children living in counties
in which air quality standards were exceeded
Measure E2: Percentage of children's days with good,
moderate, or unhealthy air quality
Measure E3a: Long-term trends in annual average concentrations
of criteria pollutants
Measure E3b: Number of children living in counties with
high annual averages of particulate matter
Measure E4: Percentage of children living in counties
where estimated hazardous air pollutant concentrations were
greater than health benchmarks in 1999
Indoor Air Pollutants
Measure E5: Percentage of children ages 6 and under regularly exposed to environmental tobacco smoke in the home
Drinking Water Contaminants
Measure E6: Percentage of children served by community water systems that did not meet all applicable health-based drinking water standards
Measure E7: Percentage of children living in areas served by community water systems with violations of drinking water monitoring and reporting
requirements
Pesticide Residues
Measure E8: Percentage of fruits, vegetables and grains, and other food and drink products with detectable residues of organophosphate pesticides
Land Contaminants
Measure E9: Percentage of children residing within one
mile of a Superfund site
Environmental Contaminants
Measures:
Outdoor Air Pollutants
Indoor Air Pollutants
Drinking Water Contaminants
Pesticide Residues
Land Contaminants