Chemical Wastes, Children's Health, and the Superfund Basic Research Program

Three to 4 million children and adolescents in the United States live within 1 mile of a federally designated Superfund hazardous waste disposal site and are at risk of exposure to chemical toxicants released from these sites into air, groundwater, surface water, and surrounding communities. Because...

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Published in:Environmental health perspectives 1999-06, Vol.107 (6), p.423-427
Main Authors: Landrigan, Philip J., Suk, William A., Amler, Robert W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemical hazards
Child
Child Welfare
Children
Commentary
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act
Environmental agencies
Environmental health
Hazardous waste sites
Humans
Industrial Waste - adverse effects
Nervous system diseases
Pediatrics
Preventive medicine
Toxicants
United States
United States Environmental Protection Agency
USA, Superfund Basic Research Program
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Summary:Three to 4 million children and adolescents in the United States live within 1 mile of a federally designated Superfund hazardous waste disposal site and are at risk of exposure to chemical toxicants released from these sites into air, groundwater, surface water, and surrounding communities. Because of their patterns of exposure and their biological vulnerability, children are uniquely susceptible to health injury resulting from exposures to chemical toxicants in the environment. The Superfund Basic Research Program, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and directed by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is extremely well positioned to organize multidisciplinary research that will assess patterns of children's exposures to hazardous chemicals from hazardous waste disposal sites; quantify children's vulnerability to environmental toxicants; assess causal associations between environmental exposures and pediatric disease; and eluciudate the mechanisms of environmental disease in children at the cellular and molecular level.
ISSN:0091-6765
1552-9924
DOI:10.1289/ehp.99107423