IN FOCUS: Environmental Exposures

                                                                                                                     (c) Ryan Binns

• Environmental exposures can occur daily at
  home, at school, in the workplace, in health
  care facilities and in other settings
• Environmental exposures can also occur in the
  womb, when chemicals in the mother’s body
  or diet cross the placenta to the fetus.
• Environmental exposures are often influenced
  by social, economic and cultural factors such as
  employment, income, housing, access to food
  and the way food is produced and processed.
• These exposures may be chronic (from occupation
  or residence, for example) or acute
  (from an industrial accident, such as a release
  of radioactive materials or other hazardous
  substances). (State of the Evidence, Breast Cancer Fund-2004)

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