The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) and the
Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (OCDPA) are concerned about the implications
for lifelong health of early environmental exposures to toxic substances. The two partnerships
represent 21 organizations that are active in Ontario and nationwide on issues of children’s
environmental health and chronic disease prevention. They have joined forces to promote
awareness of, and appropriate policy responses to, the linkages between early (fetal and
childhood) exposures to toxic chemicals and the development of chronic diseases, including
asthma and other respiratory diseases, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and impacts on
the brain, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.