This manual also benefited from the experts who contributed to the development of the companion document, Child Health and the Environment – A Primer and the more comprehensive report: Environmental Threats to Children: Understanding the Risks, Enabling Prevention, published by Toronto Public Health. [...] The information herein reflects the views of the author and is not officially endorsed by the Government of Ontario or the Public Health Agency of Canada. [...] The information is adapted from the Executive Summary to Environmental Threats to Children: Understanding the Risks, Enabling Prevention and Child Health and the Environment – A Primer. [...] Health promotion is focused Association and the Canadian Association of on ensuring the health and well-being of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). [...] PBDE levels reflect the An overarching message running through all of the work on mother’s body burden, and are rising in the topic of child health and environment is the breast milk in North American women.