Persistent toxic chemicals: more than Stockholm persistent organic pollutants
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Persistent toxic chemicals: more than Stockholm persistent organic pollutants.
Schafer and Kegley bring up the important issue of excessive chemicals exposure of children. However, they do not consider in depth the "cumulative and simultaneous exposures faced by children, (.) moving beyond the chemical-by-chemical approach of the past", as quoted from the US Environmental Protection Agency national agenda to protect children from environmental health threats. Existing evi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.56.11.833