Working together for healthy families by protecting children from toxic threats in the food they eat, water they drink and air they breathe.

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.