EU RESEARCH PROJECT WILL ASSESS ANTIBACTERIAL PRODUCTS’ IMPACT ON CHILD NATURAL IMMUNITY
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERNS that antibacterial cleaning products are weakening the natural immunity of children against diseases will be assessed by Euro 6 million research project involving 7,000 children in Finland, Estonia and north-western Russia's Karelia. All three test areas have similar ethnic backgrounds, but widely differing standards of living and domestic cleanliness. The DIABIMMUNE study will follow more than 300 children from birth to three-years-old, and 2,000 from three to five-years-old to see whether their immune systems have been weakened by low ...
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