Us plans large scale environmental study

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are planning the most ambitious study thus far to look at the effects of environmental factors on children's health. If everything goes according

to plan, 100,000 participants will be recruited before birth, probably in the first trimester of pregnancy, and data will be gathered until they reach age 21. The project was borne out of

the Executive Order on the Protection of Children from Environmental Health, signed by President Clinton in 1997. The order requires that all federal agencies assign a high priority to

addressing health and safety risks to children, coordinate research priorities on children's health, and ensure that their standards take into account special risks to children.

Congress has authorized $18 million per year from 2001 to 2005 for the planning and pilot stages of the study. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS

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environmental study. _Nat Med_ 7, 756 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/89842 Download citation * Issue Date: July 2001 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/89842 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share

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