Toxicology and Environmental Health examines how environmental exposures—from lead and air pollution to household toxicants and emerging chemical threats—impact child health and development. This session brings together pediatricians, environmental health specialists, toxicologists, public-health professionals and policy-makers to review screening, diagnosis and community-based prevention strategies. Presentations will cover clinical recognition and management of common toxic exposures, newborn and childhood screening for lead and other heavy metals, and evidence-based counsel on household chemical safety and flame-retardant exposures. The programme addresses the developmental neurotoxicity of early-life exposures, environmental contributors to asthma and allergic disease, and climate-related health risks that disproportionately affect vulnerable communities.

Workshops will focus on practical office-based screening (risk assessment tools), interpretation of biomonitoring results, chelation protocols where indicated and referral pathways to public health resources. Panels will discuss community remediation strategies, advocacy for safer consumer products, and surveillance systems to detect clusters of exposure. Translational talks will highlight biomarker advances, exposome research linking cumulative exposures to outcomes, and interventions that reduce household exposure burdens. Equity and policy sessions examine how housing policy, industrial regulation and social determinants combine to shape exposure risk, offering clinicians advocacy tools and sample policy language to support local action.