Children and Chemical Safety

Climate Change and Chemicals Management

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IFCS Brochure
pdf, 933kb
See the IFCS Children and Chemical Safety Champion Brochure -
Français/French
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Español/Spanish
pdf, 591kb

Publication:
"Chemical Safety and Children's Health
Protecting the world's children from harmful
chemicals exposures: a global guide to resources"
Published version in English, French, and Spanish
Links to Additional Resources
Publications and presentations of interest:
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Chemical Safety Seminar - Children's Environmental Health Research
pdf, 1.30Mb
Lilian Corra, MD
International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE)
Seminar organized by Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, 25 February 2008.
The presentation included information on:
- burden of disease caused by chemicals;
- bio-monitoring as a tool for research; and
- research to support policy development.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the first ever report highlighting children's special susceptibility to harmful chemical exposures at different periods of their growth. This new volume of the Environmental Health Criteria series, Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated with Exposure to Chemicals, is the most comprehensive work yet undertaken on the scientific principles to be considered in assessing health risks in children. It highlights the fact that in children, the stage in their development when exposure occurs may be just as important as the magnitude of the exposure.
The scientific principles proposed in the document for evaluating environmental health risks in children will help the health sector, researchers and policy makers to protect children of all ages through improved risk assessments, appropriate interventions and focused research to become healthy adults.
Children and chemical safety:
frame work for action to protect children from harmful exposures.
IFCS Forum IV Recommendations Presentation

Children's Brochure
Forum V: Toys and Chemical Safety
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English
pdf, 280kb
Thought Starter - Toys and Chemical Safety -
Arabic
pdf, 357kb -
Chinese
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French
pdf, 266kb -
Russian
pdf, 574kb -
Spanish
pdf, 272kb
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Link to the Central European Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Volume 12, No.3, 2006
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Forum V: Plenary Presentations
Budapest, Hungary, 25-29 September 2006
Recommendations from Forum V
Budapest, Hungary, 25-29 September 2006
- Link to the Children's environmental health - WHO Programme
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Link to WHO Information Note: "Lead in Toys"
pdf, 12kb
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Lead and Cadmium in soft plastic toys
Abhay Kumar and Prashant Pastore
Current Science Vol 93 No (25 September 2007) pgs 818-822 -
Presumption of Safety: Limits of Federal Policies on Toxic Substances in Consumer Products
Authors:
Joel Tickner, ScD—Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Sustainability and Project Director, Chemicals Policy Initiative of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Yve Torrie, MA—Project Manager, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts Lowell
This report identifies four reasons why the US government regulatory system for protecting the public from toxic substances in toys and other products is inadequate, allowing potentially harmful products to end up on store shelves.
Forum IV Recommendations and Agreed Action Items on
Children and Chemical Safety
1 page flyer

Central European Journal Occupational and
Environmental Medicine(Publication)
Protecting Children from Harmful Chemical Exposures
Table of Contents:
- Protecting Children from Harmful Chemical Exposures
- Decisions of Forum IV of IFCS
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Arabic
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Chinese
pdf, 268kb -
English
pdf, 47kb -
French
pdf, 206kb -
Russian
doc, 96kb -
Spanish
pdf, 199kb

- Recommendations of the Forum IV
Spanish version is available from the IFCS Secretariat
La versión en español se encuentra disponible en el Secretariado del IFCS
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Sustainable Toy Initiative
Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
University of Massachusetts Lowell
The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production is in the early stages of convening a multi-stakeholder Sustainable Toys Initiative to identify solutions for ensuring that toys are safe and healthy for children, the earth, and the workers who make them, no matter where the toys are produced and consumed.
Events
Children's Health and Persistent Organic Pollutants.
Protecting our Most Precious Resource
Sponsored by: Government of Uruguay, PAHO, WHO, IFCS
4 May 2005 - Punta del Este, Uruguay
Stockholm Convention COP1
Photo Gallery: Pictures of the children's chorus
Video: COP Protegiendo a los niños,
nuestro bien más preciado.
POPs Protecting Children, our most precious resource
(Spanish version with English subtitles)
4th International Conference on Children's Health and the Environment.
Vienna, Austria, 10-12 June 2007