The disproportionate impact of environmental health threats on children of color.
Children receive greater exposures to environmental pollutants present in air, food, and water because they inhale or ingest more air, food, or water on a body-weight basis than adults do. Communities of color are disproportionately exposed to hazardous wastes, dioxin, and air pollution. Existing data demonstrate that children of color are the subgroup of the population most exposed to certain pollutants, including lead, air pollution, and pesticides. Government standards do not take into account children's differential exposures or the cumulative nature of these exposures. Federal regulations fail to protect the most highly exposed and most sensitive subgroups of the population. More often than not this group is children of color.
Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D002648:Child; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States; D014876:Water Pollution; D014881:Water Supply
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