On May 13, 2009, a seminar entitled “Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World” was held at the Mount Sinai Children’s Environmental Health Center in New York City and the presentations by the key speakers, Mrs. Rhonda Sherwood, Mr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Professor Philip Landrigan can be viewed below.
The Center’s declared mission is “to protect children against environmental threats to health” and it is conducting research into the environmental causes of asthma, learning disabilities, autism, obesity and childhood cancers. There is growing concern that we are awash in environmental toxins and that our children and even the unborn are particularly vulnerable. This is a situation which cannot be allowed to continue and a bill to address it, the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act, is currently before the U.S. Congress.
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