Preventing Harm Minnesota seeks to improve the health of children in Minnesota by promoting greater precaution in the policies and personal choices that determine routine pollutants in a child’s environment.

Many childhood cancers, learning and other disabilities in children are on the rise. We don’t know why. Toxic pollutants -- along with nutrition, genetics, and other factors – are important contributors to these problems.

Pollution is perhaps the most important, because unlike genetic factors, it is a preventable contributor to disease.  More precautionary policies and public health messages therefore are critically important for Minnesota.  By definition, precautionary policies will do a better job of actually preventing children and other people from being injured or disabled by toxic pollutants.