Environmental toxins; their impact on children’s health
- Correspondence to:
Dr J Grigg
Senior Lecturer, Leicester Children’s Asthma Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE2 7LX, UK; jg33le.ac.uk
- Accepted 25 April 2003
Abstract
Contamination of the environment by man-made and natural toxins has a direct impact on the health of children. This review considers how toxic contamination is identified and regulated, and highlights specific hazards.
- COT, UK Committee on the Toxicity of Chemicals
- DEFRA, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- EPA, US Environmental Protection Agency
- FSA, UK Food Standards Agency
- MCCPs, medium chain length chlorinated paraffins
- PCBs, polychlorinated biphenols
- POPs, persistent organic pollutants
- TEQ, international toxic equivalency factor
- UF, uncertainty factor
- UNEP, United National Environment Programme








