Child Health

Look to The Green Guide for information about child health and a specific child environmental issue of concern to you. Parents are appropriately concerned about their child’s health and child health issues. Because children are rapidly growing and developing, they can be more vulnerable to the toxic effects of environmental pollutants, cancer-causing agents in particular. Child health researchers point out that children under two have ten times the risk and children ages 2-15 have approximately three times the risk of contracting cancer when exposed to mutagenic substances, which alter DNA. It is therefore important that child health risk factors be taken into account when evaluating the safety of chemicals to which all of us, but children in particular, are exposed. Each child health and child environmental issue The Green Guide has researched and reported on is noted in the links below.

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