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Environmental toxins; their impact on children’s health
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.
- dioxins
- environment
- persistent organic pollutants
- toxins
- 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
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- 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
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Copyright 2004 Archives of Disease in Childhood