Creating a Network to Protect Creating a Network to Protect Children from Environmental Children from Environmental Health Threats: Health Threats: The U.S. Experience The U.S. Experience Workshop on Environmental Threats to the Health of Workshop on Environmental Threats to the Health of Children in the Americas Children in the Americas Lima, Peru Lima, Peru 9-11 April 2003 9-11 April 2003 Edward H. Chu (for Martha Berger) Edward H. Chu (for Martha Berger) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Children’s Health Protection Office of Children’s Health Protection
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Creating a Network to Protect Creating a Network to Protect Children from Environmental Health Children from Environmental Health
Threats:Threats:
The U.S. ExperienceThe U.S. Experience
Workshop on Environmental Threats to the Health of Children in Workshop on Environmental Threats to the Health of Children in the Americasthe Americas
Lima, PeruLima, Peru
9-11 April 20039-11 April 2003
Edward H. Chu (for Martha Berger)Edward H. Chu (for Martha Berger)
U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyU.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Children’s Health ProtectionOffice of Children’s Health Protection
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Protecting Children in the United States
Protecting Children in the United States
Institutional Framework Political Legal Regulatory
Developing information about children’s health and the environment “Environment” and “Health” Bridging the gap
Building and supporting the network to take action Short- and long-term
Getting the word out
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Protecting Children’s Health in the United States
Protecting Children’s Health in the United States
1993 – Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (NAS Report) 1996 – Food Quality Protection Act 1996 – Safe Drinking Water Act 1996 – EPA’s National Agenda to Protect Children 1997 – Executive Order 1997 – Office of Children’s Health Protection Established 1999 – Children’s Environmental Health Research Centers Established 2000 – Children’s Health Act 2000 – EPA’s Children’s Health Research Strategy 2001 – Administrator Whitman makes children’s health a priority 2001 – President Bush renews the Executive Order
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Legislation to Protect ChildrenLegislation to Protect Children
Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 Expands EPA’s pesticide
testing authority Requires a 10x safety factor
for infants and children Requires examination of
“common mechanism of action” and “total exposure”
Safe Drinking Water Act of 1996 Requires consideration of
Children’s Health Act of 2000 Authorizes the Federal
government to conduct a national longitudinal study of environmental influences (including physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial) on children's health and development “National Children’s Study”
Primary Agencies responsible:National Institute of Child Heath
and Human DevelopmentCenters for Disease ControlEPA
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EPA’s National Agenda to Protect ChildrenEPA’s National Agenda to Protect Children
Set protective standards Expand research on risks to children Develop new policies to address cumulative &
simultaneous exposures faced by children Expand Community Right-To-Know Provide basic information to parents and care givers Expand education efforts with health & environmental
officials Provide funding
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Executive Order to Protect ChildrenExecutive Order to Protect Children
Executive Order 13045 requires all Federal Agencies to
make it a high priority to identify and assess environmental health risks and safety risks that may disproportionately affect children
ensure that its policies, programs, activities and standards address disproportionate risk to children
The Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children, Co-chaired by the DHHS Secretary and the EPA Administrator, includes 10 federal agencies and 6 White House offices
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Task Force Departments and AgenciesTask Force Departments and Agencies
Department of Health & Human Services
Department of Housing & Urban Development
Department of Justice Department of Defense Department of Energy Department of Labor Department of Education Department of Agriculture Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection Agency
Consumer Product Safety Commission
White House Office Of Management and
Budget Council on Environmental
Quality Office of Science and
Technology Policy Domestic Policy Council National Economic Council
National Children’s Study – Longitudinal cohort study to establish relationship between environmental factors and health from preconception through adolescence
Federal research data base
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Office of Children’s Health Protection (OCHP)Office of Children’s Health Protection (OCHP)
Established in 1997 to institutionalize EPA’s National Agenda and the Executive Order
Mission – To make the protection of children’s health a fundamental goal of public health and environmental protection
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Building and Supporting the NetworkBuilding and Supporting the Network