EPA SEEKS ANSWERS TO KEY QUESTION IN MODELING CHILDREN'S EXPOSURE

EPA is offering $5 million in research grants to tackle the long-running question of how to measure and model children's exposure to hazards in their environments, especially in schools and daycare centers where children spend many hours but where researchers are often unable to conduct tests. Developing models or other tools that can estimate children's exposure in real-world scenarios is crucial to agency risk assessments because exposure is an integral component of the assessments. In addition, children are an important...