An emerging global concern is the realisation that children live in a world where the production and use of chemicals have changed the environment we live in and not always for the better. Sadly it is children who are at great risk from chemical exposures in the modern world. In recognition of the seriousness of the problem the World Health Organisation (WHO) has just established the first collaborating centre for research in children's environmental health with the Telethon Institute  for Child Health Research, in Perth, WA.

For more details about the work the Telethon Institute will be doing over the coming years download the report:

www.ichr.uwa.edu.au/research/divisions/csc/docs/WHO_final.pdf