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Children's Health

• A Story of Health, a multimedia eBook that explores how our environments interact with our genes to influence health across the lifespan. Colorful illustrations, graphics and videos enhance each page. Links to a wide range of additional resources and hundreds of scientific papers enrich each story with information you can use today to promote health and prevent disease.
  [02/26/15]
• Impacts of Climate Change on Children's Health
  [01/20/15]
• Art and Craft Materials In Schools: Guidelines for Purchasing and Safe Use
  [October, 2014]
• 2014 Report to the Legislature - Children's Environmental Health Program
  [02/25/14]
• Children's Health Symposium - Impacts of Environmental Chemicals on Development – Are complex interactions captured by traditional risk assessment practices?
  [02/04/14]
• Art Hazards/Children's Health - Chemicals in Children's Markers - Teachers and Parents Please Take Our Short Survey
  [01/22/14]
• Children's Health - Art Smarts! Guidelines for the Safe Use of Art and Craft Materials
  [11/13/13]
• Presentations from the January 2012 Children's Environmental Health Symposium in Oakland on Emerging Research and Implications for Risk Assessment and Policy
  [07/10/12]
  
  • Asa Bradman - Children's Exposures to Chemicals in Farming Communities and Child Care.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXmDWoXuK68
    
  • Todd Whitehead - Using House Dust to Measure Chemicals Affecting Children
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GezqvC5wOJA
  • Issac Pessah - Exposures affecting neuroexcitability and oxidative stress
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhXcXl3foLo
  • Catherine Karr - Evidence to practice: perspective of the clinical community
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5PR-OQkXik
  • Joe Wiemels - Environmental exposures, childhood leukemia, and the role of DNA methylation
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-0rgZI7pA
  • Catherine Metayer - Use of chemicals at home and risk of childhood leukemia
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT-JFKFu0Co
  • Patricia A. Buffler - Parents' smoking increases risk of leukemia in their children
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeU0UZ-udAc
  • Stephen S. Francis - Could infection contribute to a possible leukemia cluster in Fallon?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Iu-VkiLdQ
• Children's Environmental Health - The California Environmental Protection Agency's (Cal/EPA) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is hereby designated as the lead entity within the Agency to coordinate and manage the Children's Environmental Health Program
  [02/22/12]
• Safety Study of Artificial Turf Containing Crumb Rubber Infill Made From Recycled Tires: Measurements of Chemicals and Particulates in the Air, Bacteria in the Turf, and Skin Abrasions Caused by Contact with the Surface
  [11/29/10]
• Child-Specific Reference Dose - Notice of an extension to the Public Comment Period on the Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for Paraquat for use in Assessing Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [11/04/10]
• Child-Specific Reference Dose - Notice of an extension to the Public Comment Period on the Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for Paraquat for use in Assessing Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [09/24/10]
• Child-Specific Reference Dose - Notice of a Public Comments Period on the Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for Paraquat for use in Assessing Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [08/12/10]
• Final Report Development of Health Criteria for School Site Risk Assessment Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 901(g): Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for School Site Risk Assessment: Chlorpyrifos
  [06/17/10]
• Announcement of a Public Comment Period for the Final Draft on the Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for Chlorpyrifos for Use in Assessing Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [02/04/10]
• Guidance for Assessing Exposures and Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites Notice of Availability - Spreadsheet Updated
  [01/13/09]
• Child-Specific Reference Dose - Announcement of a Public Comment Period Extension: Paraquat
  [01/01/10]
• Child- Specific Reference Dose - Notice of a Public Comment Period and Public Workshop on the Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for Paraquat for use in Assessing Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [12/04/09]
• Guidance for Assessing Exposures and Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites Notice of Availability - updated spreadsheet available
  [10/29/09]
• Tire-Derived Product Business Assistance - Artificial Turf Study, Literature Review (courtesy of CIWMB)
  [10/19/09]
• Guidance for Assessing Exposures and Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites Notice of Availability - updated spreadsheet available
  [07/15/09]
• CECBP – July 28-29, 2009 Meeting of Scientific Guidance Panel
  [06/22/09]
• Adoption of the Revised Air Toxics Hot Spots Program Technical Support Document for Cancer Potency Factors
  [06/01/09]
• Guidance for Assessing Exposures and Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites Notice of Availability - updated spreadsheet available
  [05/11/09]
• Final Documents: Development of a Reference Dose (RfD) for Methamphetamine and Assessment of Children’s Exposure to Surface Methamphetamine Residues in Former Clandestine Methamphetamine Labs, and Identification of a Risk-Based Cleanup Standard for Surface Methamphetamine Contamination
  [02/27/09]
• Announcement of a Public Comment Period on the Documents Development of a Reference Dose (RfD) for Methamphetamine and Assessment of Children’s Exposure to Surface Methamphetamine Residues in Former Clandestine Methamphetamine Labs, and Identification of a Risk-Based Cleanup Standard for Surface Methamphetamine Contamination
  [12/26/08]
• Adoption of the Revised Air Toxics Hot Spots Program Technical Support Document for the Derivation of Noncancer Reference Exposure Levels and RELs for Six Chemicals
  [12/19/08]
• Announcement of a Public Comment Period Extension: Chlorpyrifos
  [01/07/08]
• Updated Notice of Joint Public Workshops on the Development of the Health-Based Target Remediation Standard for Methamphetamine
  [12/28/07]
• Notice of the Availability of an Evaluation Report on Malathion
  [11/30/07]
• Notice of the Availability of an Evaluation Report on Dieldrin
  [11/30/07]
• Announcement of a Public Comment Period and Public Workshop: Public Comments on the Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for Chlorpyrifos for Use in Assessing Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [11/30/07]
• Final Report: “Development of Health Criteria for School Site Risk Assessment Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 901(g): Child-Specific Reference Doses (chRDs) for School Site Risk Assessment: Atrazine and Deltamethrin.”
  [10/04/07]
• Announcement of a Public Comment Period Public comments on the child-specific Reference Doses (chRD) for atrazine and deltamethrin for use in assessing health risks at existing and proposed School Sites
  [07/13/07]
• Final Report Available: "Development of Health Criteriafor Schools Site Risk Assessment Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 901(g): Child-Specific Benchmark Change in Blood Lead Concentration for School Site Risk Assessment"
  [04/17/07]
• Evaluation of Health Effects of Recycled Waste Tires in Playground and Track Products This 147 page report explores the potential health risks to children of using outdoor playground and track surfaces constructed from recycled waste tires
  [02/01/07]
• Document Available for Public Comment - Final Draft Development of Health Criteria for School Site Risk Assessment Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 901(G): Proposed Child-Specific Benchmark Change in Blood Lead Concentration for School Site Risk Assessment
  [01/05/07]
• Secondhand Smoke & Children's Health - Updated pamphlets in both English and Spanish
  [07/21/06]
• Final Report “Development of Health Criteria for School Site Risk Assessment Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 901(g): Child-Specific Reference Doses (chRDs) for School Site Risk Assessment: Manganese and Pentachlorophenol
  [07/03/06]
• Fact Sheet: Air Pollution from Nearby Traffic and Children’s Health: Information for Childcare Providers
  [05/31/06]
• Secondhand Smoke & Children's Health
  [04/19/06]
• Announcement of a Public Comment Period: Public comments on the child-specific Reference Doses (chRDs) for manganese and pentachlorophenol for use in assessing health risks at existing and proposed School Sites
  [04/14/06]
  • Document finalized 07/03/06. Follow this link to view the final document.
• Announcement of a Public Comment Period and Public Workshop on the Child-specific Toxicity Criteria for Endosulfan and Lead for Use in Assessing Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [3/17/06]
• Table of Toxic Air Contaminants (TACs) that may disproportionately impact infants and children
  [02/06/06]
• Memorandum: Environmental Tobacco Smoke As A Toxic Air Contaminant To Which Infants And Children May Be Especially Susceptible
  [02/02/06]
• Announcement of a Public Comment Period and Public Workshop: Public comments on the child-specific Reference Dose (chRD) for atrazine and deltamethrin for use in assessing health risks at existing and proposed School Sites
  [01/26/06]
• Development of Health Criteria for School Site Risk Assessment Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 901(g): Child-Specific Reference Doses (chRDs) for School Site Risk Assessment – Cadmium, Chlordane, Heptachlor, Heptachlor Epoxide, Methoxychlor, and Nickel
  Final Report
  [12/23/05]
• Announcement of Document and Public Comment Period: Final Draft Report “Development of Health Criteria for School Site Risk Assessment Pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 901(g): Proposed Child-Specific Reference Dose (chRD) for School Site Risk Assessment: cadmium, chlordane, heptachlor, heptachlor epoxide, methoxychlor, and nickel.
  [11/02/05]
• Announcement of a Public Workshop and Extension of a Previously Announced Comment Period on the Draft Child-Specific Reference Doses (chRD) for Pentachlorophenol and Manganese for Use in Assessing Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [12/17/04]
  • Document finalized 07/03/06. Follow this link to view the final document.
• Notice to Interested Parties: Announcement of a Public Comment Period, Public comments on the child-specific Reference Dose (chRD) for manganese and pentachlorophenol for use in assessing health risks at existing and proposed School Sites
  [12/03/04]
  • Document finalized 07/03/06. Follow this link to view the final document.
• Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Health
  [10/25/04]
• Air Pollution and Children's Health: Traffic Study Fact Sheets and Press Release
  [10/18/04]
• Guidance for Assessing Exposures and Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  Notice of Availability - Spreadsheet updated
  [07/12/06]
• Notice of Availability: Guidance for Assessing Exposures and Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [02/06/04]
• Updated Art Hazards List and Guideline for the Safe Use of Art and Crafts Materials
  [12/24/03]
• Air Pollution and Children's Health: A fact sheet from OEHHA and the American Lung Association
  [11/26/03]
• Announcement of a Public Comment Period Public Comments on the Final Draft Guidance for Assessing Exposures and Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [11/13/03]
• Announcement of the Public Release and a Public Workshop to Discuss and Receive Public Input on "Draft Proposed Child-Specific Reference Doses (chRD) for School Site Risk Assessment: Cadmium, Chlordane, Heptachlor/Heptachlor Epoxide, Methoxychlor, and Nickel."
  [06/23/03]
• Notice to Interested Parties: Announcement of a Public Comment Period, Public Comments on the Draft Guidance for Assessing Exposures and Health Risks at Existing and Proposed School Sites
  [12/20/02]
• Notice of Document Availability: Development of Health Criteria for School Site Risk Assessment Pursuant to Health and Safety Code 901(g), Identification of Potential Chemical Contaminants of Concern at California School Sites
  [06/07/02]
• Posters and Displays from Children's Health Awareness Day
  April 22, 2002 Cal/EPA Headquarters
• Children’s Environmental Health Awareness Day
  April 22, 2002 Cal/EPA Headquarters
  Contact: Jessica Counts
  Conference Program and Agenda (Adobe Acrobat, 28 KB)
• Air Pollution and Children's Health: A fact sheet from OEHHA and the American Lung Association
  [2/28/02]
• Notice to Interested Parties: Document Available: Prioritization of Toxic Air Contaminants - Children's Environmental Health Protection Act - Final Report
  [10/19/01]
• Notice to Interested Parties: Responses to Comments on the Final Public Review Draft Prioritization of Toxic Air Contaminants Under the Children's Environmental Health Protection Act
  [07/26/01]
• Air Pollution and Children's Health: A fact sheet from OEHHA and the American Lung Association
  [05/21/01] updated 02/28/02
• Adequacy of California Ambient Air Quality Standards: Children’s Environmental Health Protection Act
  [11/00]
• Proceedings from the Children's Environmental Health Symposium, Risk Assessment in California and the Need for Further Investigation to Insure Infant and Children Protection
  [05/01- 05/02/00]
• Children's Health Resources from the OEHHA Toxics Directory