Vic: Primary school children to take part in pollution study

AAP General News (Australia)
01-19-2001
Vic: Primary school children to take part in pollution study

MELBOURNE, Jan 19 AAP - Several hundred Melbourne primary school children will take
part in a study to determine possible links between pollution and common childhood respiratory
diseases such as asthma.

Federal Environment Minister Robert Hill today launched the $237,000 government funded
18-month study, which starts in March, at Melbourne's inner suburban Collingwood College.

"The project will look at the children's exposure to air pollution in areas with varied
levels of traffic, and sample the air pollutants in both the classroom and …