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Chemical Risk Factors for Children's Health and Research Strategy  

Lee, Hyo-Min (Risk Management Research Division, National institute of Toxicological Research, Korea Food and Drug Administration)
Jung, Ki-Hwa (College of Pharmacy, Duksung Women's University)
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Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety / v.23, no.3, 2008 , pp. 276-283 More about this Journal
Abstract
To provide the research strategy for protection of children's health from hazardous chemical, we reviewed the hazardous chemicals can be exposed through maternity, children's life style and living environment. Recently, diseases related with children's living condition were focused as asthma, atopy, childhood developmental disability, congenital malformations and obesity. Children can be exposed to hazardous chemicals through an ambient air, water, soil, food, toys and other factors such as floor dust. Also children's health was deeply related with a wrong life style and neglectful caring by a lack of knowledge and information of harmful ones at parents and child care center's nursers. According to the previous study, the chemical risk factor of children's health were identified as inorganic arsenic, bisphenol A, 2,4-D, dichlorvos, methylmercury, PCBs, pesticide, phthalates, PFOA/PFOS, vinyl chloride, et al. Domestic studies for identification of causality between children exposure to chemicals and resulted hazardous effects were not implemented. The confirmation of chemical risk factors through simultaneously performing toxicological analysis, human effect study, environmental/human monitoring, and risk assessment is needed for good risk management. And also, inter-agency collaboration and sharing information can support confirming scientific evidence and good decision making.
Keywords
children health; environmental risk factor; chemical risk factor;
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