Environmental health risks - | Umweltbundesamt

Society places a high value on protecting children. For that reason, the demand is repeatedly made that children’s particular vulnerability be given special consideration when evaluating environment-related health risks and deriving limit values. Current regulatory practice often attempts to do this in a relatively schematic way, in the form of safety factors. An intraspecies factor (“uncertainty factor”) of up to 10, used to take particularly vulnerable groups into account, also covers children.