Researcher: New toxicant safety standards are needed to protect the young

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 15:49 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an invited, peer-reviewed journal article on how prenatal exposure to toxic substances are linked to a host of diseases in later life -- from atherosclerosis to cancer -- a Cornell toxicologist calls for changing how safety testing is done to better protect infants and children.

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