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Colleen Olsberg, PhD¹, George Bollweg, PhD¹, Maryann Suero, PhD¹, Mario Mangino, PhD¹, Janice Huang¹, Edward Master, RN¹, Lara Pullen, PhD², Marisa Naujokas, PhD², and Michael Firestone, PhD³. (1) United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604, 312-353-4686, olsberg.colleen@epa.gov, (2) Environmental Health Consulting, Inc., 745 S. East Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60304, (3) Child and Aging Health Protection Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Headquarters, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20460

The Toxicity and Exposure Assessment for Children's Health (TEACH) project is an United States EnvironmentalProtection Agency (U.S. EPA), Office of Children's Health Protection (OCHP)- supported effort that seeks to complement existing informational tools on health risks to children from exposure to chemicals in the environment. TEACH consolidates children's health and related developmental toxicology information from the scientific literature and improves access to that information through an interactive Internet Web site (http://www.epa.gov/teach). The poster describes the TEACH Internet Web site, which includes two main components: a searchable database and Chemical Summaries. The TEACH Database contains summaries of research articles from peer-reviewed journals that pertain to early life and childhood exposure and health effects for the TEACH chemicals of concern. The TEACH Chemical Summaries highlight information from the TEACH Database and other federal resources in a standardized format for each TEACH chemical of concern. Eighteen chemicals or chemical groups are currently covered in the TEACH project. These chemicals, which were chosen because of potential effects on children's health, are: arsenic, benzo(a)pyrene, benzene, formaldehyde, manganese, alkyl mercury, elemental mercury, inorganic mercury, nitrates/nitrites, phthalates, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), trichloroethylene (TCE), vinyl chloride, and five pesticides (atrazine, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid-2,4-D, diethyltoluamide-DEET, dichlorvos, and pyrethroids- permethrin and resmethrin).

Learning Objectives: The participant (learner) who views this poster will be able to

• Access the TEACH Internet Web site, and navigate within the Web site to find all links and TEACH tools.
• Query the TEACH database and extract summaries of research articles on any of the 18 TEACH chemicals.
• Search the benzene and vinyl chloride TEACH chemical summaries and extract exposure and/or toxicity information on children's environmental health risks.

Related Web page: www.epa.gov/teach

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

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