FYI - passing on info on just released EPA handbook on assessing child-specific 
environmental pollution exposure factors. Note that in the US children are more likely 
to be in poor households and live in low-income neighborhoods with higher levels environmental pollutants, and that children of color are at even greater risk from the excess burden of 
LULUs (locally undesirable land uses) & pollution sources sited in majority-"minority" communities. 
Add on top of that differentials in playground & schools construction & maintenance across 
the socioeconomic geographies of municipalities, under-/de-funding of environmental remediation programs, and the active resistance of corporate polluters. 
  

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Subject: FYI / EPA: Highlights of the Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook

Highlights of the Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=200445

EPA Releases Guide to Help Scientists Understand Children’s Exposure to
Pollutants
Release date: 10/27/2009
Contact Information: Skip Anderson, [log in to unmask], 202-564-9551,
202-564-4355

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released a
user-friendly document to help risk assessors understand how children
are exposed to pollution. The document, titled “Highlights of the
Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook,” serves as a quick-reference
guide to the more comprehensive “Child-Specific Exposure Factors
Handbook,” published by EPA in 2008. It will serve as an additional
resource for those who work on children’s health issues, which the
agency has been highlighting during Children’s Health Month.

EPA developed the reference guide to provide important information
necessary for answering questions about exposure through drinking water,
breathing, and eating foods, such as:

How much exposure to environmental pollutants might children get if they
live or play near contaminated sites?
How much dirt from a child’s hands might s/he inadvertently eat?
How much of a child’s exposure to various pollutants might come from
skin contact?
Which age groups (childhood life stages) may inhale or ingest the most
and thus may be at higher risks?

More information on the documents:
http://www.epa.gov/childexpfactors/highlights

-- 
Alice Furumoto-Dawson, PhD/MPH
Senior Research Associate
Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research
Institute for Mind & Biology
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL - USA

http://cihdr.uchicago.edu/

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