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GUIDING PRINCIPLES -
for
CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
The American
Academy of Pediatrics and the National Academy of Sciences
have found that children are uniquely susceptible to hazardous
environmental exposures. In addition, they have determined
that many of these exposures--exposures that may occur before
conception and continue through late adolescence--can cause
or contribute to disease and disrupt development, learning
and behavior. Based on these scientific findings, we unanimously
support the following Principles:
. All children have the right to clean air,
safe food and drinking water,
and consumer and commercial products free of
environmental health and safety threats;
. All children have the right to healthy homes,
healthy child care facilities, healthy schools
and healthy communities;
. All children and adults have the
right to know about proven and potential hazards
to their environmental health and safety.
It
is our mutual responsibility to protect these rights and
to act with precaution on decisions that could affect children's
health and development.
--The
Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment
If you
are interested in signing on to the Guiding Principles and
joining the Partnership, please click on Invitation
Letter or contact:
Elise Miller, M.Ed., Executive Director of the Institute
for Children's Environmental Health and Coordinator of the
Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment, 1646
Dow Road, Freeland, WA 98249; ph: 360-331-7904; fax: 360-331-7908;
email: emiller@iceh.org;
web site: www.iceh.org.
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