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Children's Health Research

CPOC's reports contain a wealth of current research on children's special vulnerabilities and the factors impacting children's environmental health.

Potentials for exposure to industrial chemicals suspected of causing developmental neurotoxicity
Summary and appendix to the article, “Developmental Neurotoxicity of Industrial Chemicals – A Silent Pandemic,” by Philippe Grandjean and Philip Landrigan, published in the November 8, 2006 online edition of The Lancet.

Mental Retardation and Prenatal Methylmercury Toxicity
Trasande L, Schechter CB, Haynes KA, Landrigan PJ, March 2006.

Children's health and the environment: a transatlantic dialogue
Landrigan PJ, Tamburlini G. Environmental Health Perspectives, October 2005.

The National Children's Health Study Homepage

Ethics of Pesticide Testing in Humans
Landrigan PJ, McCally M, Oleskey C., Environmental Health Perspectives, November 2003.

Chemical contaminants in breast milk and their impacts on children's health: an overview
Landrigan PJ, Sonawane B, Mattison D, McCally M, Garg A. Environmental Health Perspectives, June 2002.

Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS), US EPA
EPA's notorious study, cancelled as a result of public outrage and organized opposition led by CPOC, that sought to monitor the deliberate exposure of a group of low-income Florida infants to pesticides known to contain toxic chemicals.  Read more about the effort to cancel the CHEERS study.




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