Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry-Region 1, Boston, MA USA.
Public Health Rep. 2011 May-Jun;126 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):34-40. doi: 10.1177/00333549111260S106.
Licensed child care centers are generally considered to be safe because they are required to meet state licensing regulations. As part of their licensing requirements, many states inspect child care centers and include an assessment of the health and safety of the facility to look for hazardous conditions or practices that may harm children. However, most states do not require an environmental assessment of the child care center building or land to prevent a center from being placed on, next to, or inside contaminated buildings. Having worked on several sites where child care centers were affected by environmental contaminants, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) endeavor to raise awareness of this issue. One of ATSDR's partner states, Connecticut, took a proactive, non-regulatory approach to the issue with the development its Child Day Care Screening Assessment for Environmental Risk Program.
许可的儿童保育中心通常被认为是安全的，因为它们需要符合国家许可法规。作为许可要求的一部分，许多州会检查儿童保育中心，并对设施的健康和安全进行评估，以寻找可能伤害儿童的危险条件或做法。然而，大多数州并不要求对儿童保育中心的建筑物或土地进行环境评估，以防止中心建在、毗邻或位于受污染的建筑物内。疾病控制与预防中心和毒物与疾病登记署（ATSDR）在处理受环境污染物影响的儿童保育中心方面做了一些工作，努力提高人们对这一问题的认识。ATSDR 的一个合作州——康涅狄格州，通过制定其儿童日托环境风险筛查评估计划，对这一问题采取了积极的非监管方法。
