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| National Children's Study |
 US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Children's Health Protection |
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| Liz Blackburn Office of Children's Health Protection USEPA 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Mail Code 1107A Washington, DC 20460 |
Phone:
202-564-2188 Fax: 202-564-2733 URL: http://www.epa.gov/children |
Mission Statement |
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| The mission of the Office of Children's
Health Protection is to make the protection of children's
health a fundamental goal of public health and
environmental protection in the United States. |
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Children's Environmental Health Activities |
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Implementing the President's April 1997 Executive Order to Protect Children from Environmental Health and Safety Threats. The Office is working to ensure that EPA fulfills the requirements of the Executive Order to ensure that new policies, programs, activities or standards address the unique risks to children presented by environmental health or safety threats. In addition, EPA Administrator Carol Browner will cochair the Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children, which will establish a coordinated research agenda and identify research and other initiatives the Administration will take to advance the protection of children's environmental health and safety, and enlist public input for these efforts. Fulfilling the commitments of the 1997 Declaration of Children's Environmental Health. The Office is working to implement this unprecedented Declaration, in which the environment ministers from the G-7 countries and Russia agreed to take action to protect children worldwide from environmental health hazards. Carrying out the agenda from EPA's 1996 report, Environmental Health Threats to Children. That agenda includes addressing a wide array of complex threats to children's health, from air pollution, which can exacerbate asthma, to toxic chemicals that can lead to serious health problems. Ensuring that EPA health standards are protective of children, beginning with selecting five of the most significant current EPA standards and establishing procedures for review of new standards as they are developed. Researching and setting new policies on children's susceptibility and exposure to pollutants. To ensure that all EPA's efforts use the best information in developing health protections for children, the Office is working with researchers at EPA, other federal agencies and academic institutions to identify and expand research on children's health and to develop new, comprehensive policies that address children's cumulative and simultaneous exposures to environmental health threats. Expanding community right-to-know and education on children's heath. EPA will carry out a Family Right-to-Know Initiative to expand access to vital information about children's environmental health, so that families can make informed choices concerning their children's environmental exposures. Coordinating children's health issues across EPA through a new EPA Board on Children's Environmental Health that will assure integration of EPA regulatory and other actions that affect children's health. The Office of Children's Health is currently compiling an inventory of the EPA's research, programs and projects that pertain to children's environmental health. A sampling of the programs and projects conducted by the various offices and departments includes: Second Hand Smoke: Public Service Campaign, Day Care Outreach Regarding Indoor Air Quality, Pediatrician Speaker Kits Indoor Air Quality: Indoor Air Quality in Schools Ultraviolet Rays: Children's Sun Protection Campaign Lead Poisoning: Real Estate Disclosure Rule, Residential Lead Exposure, Lead Hazards During Renovation and Remodeling, Rulemaking on Do-It-Yourself Debris from Removal of Lead-Based Paint, Educating Parents About Childhood Risks from Lead Exposure, Clean-up of Lead-Contaminated Waste Sites Pesticides: Improving Scientific Knowledge About Children's Exposure to Pesticides, Food Quality Protection Act, Improvement in the Food Consumption Survey, Improvements in the Dietary Risk Evaluation System, National Pesticide Residue Database, Outdoor Residential Exposure Task Force Setting Strong Standards and Taking Tough Actions to Protect Children's Health: Protecting Young Children Living Near Toxic Waste Sites, Combustion Rulemaking to Reduce Dioxin, Furan, Lead and Mercury Pollution, Protecting Young Children from toxic PCBs, Existing Chemicals, New Chemical Assessment Community Right-to-Know and Education: Consumer Pesticide Right-to-Know Brochure, Design for the Environment for Kids, Poison Prevention, Providing Parents with Easy-to-Access and Easy-to-Read Environmental Health Information Protecting Mothers and Infants from Contaminated Fish and Polluted Waters: Providing Parents with More Information about Contaminated Fish; Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative; and Beach Health Protection Protecting Infants from Microbial Contaminants in Drinking Water: Safe Drinking Water for Children Living in Rural Areas Applying the Best Science to Protect Our Children's Future: Focusing Toxic Air Pollution Research: Proposed New Air Quality Standards and Improving Scientific Knowledge About Fine Particle Air Pollution, Researching Potential Effects on the Endocrine System from Pesticides and Industrial Chemicals, Improved Risk Assessment Procedures for Pesticides, Exposure Research, Cumulative Exposure Project For further information on any of the Agency-wide projects, contact the Office of Children's Health Protection. |
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Please note: the information
presented above was provided and reviewed for accuracy by
US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Children's
Health Protection and was not verified independently by
the Children's Environmental Health Network. |
