- Aquatic Toxins
- Find out about Red Tide, Blue Green Algae (Cyanobacteria), Ciguatera Fish Poisoning, and Saxitoxin Puffer Fish Poisoning, illnesses resulting from exposure to Harmful Algae and the Harmful Algal Bloom Hotline.
- Arboviral Encephalitis and West Nile Virus Information
- Information, maps, press releases and reporting procedures.
- Biomedical Waste
- Prevents the spread of bloodborne pathogens by ensuring the proper onsite handling and packaging of biomedical waste;
- Birth Defects Registry
- Information about the Birth Defects Registry and detecting, investigating, and preventing birth defects.
- Black Henna
- Information on the risks associated with getting a "temporary black henna tattoo", including permanent scaring of the skin;
- Body Piercing
- Prevents the spread of bloodborne pathogens through prescribed minimum sanitary and safety requirements related to the design, operation, and maintenance of body-piercing salons and temporary establishments.
- Certification of Environmental Health Professional
- Ensures that department staff that are assigned the responsibility to perform environmental health evaluations for food hygiene facilities and onsite sewage disposal systems are knowledgeable in their specific areas of practice and will conduct themselves in a professional and ethical manner.
- Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
- Conducts statewide laboratory-based surveillance of blood lead levels in children. Lead test results are submitted by laboratories, and program staff maintain a large database.
- Compressed Air Program
- Reduces risks to recreational sport divers by establishing maximum allowable levels for contaminants in compressed air. The quality of compressed air sold for SCUBA is ensured through required sampling, testing and enforcement measures for non-compliant entities.
- Food Hygiene
- Ensures food establishments regulated by the Department of Health are designed, built, equipped and operated in a safe and sanitary manner;
- Food and Waterborne Illness Surveillance and Investigations
- Food Product Safety, Food and Waterborne Illnesses Surveillance and Investigations.
- Group Care Facilities
- Ensures group care facilities in the state meet minimum health and safety standards. Examples of group care facilities include schools, foster homes, adult living facilities, adult day care centers, child care centers and other residential facilities.
- Hazardous Substance Emergency Event Surveillance
- Florida HSEES program coordinates data collection of acute hazardous substances releases through other agencies and monitors and reports to ATSDR chemical releases that meet HSEES requirements for a reportable event. The purpose of HSEES is to suggest strategies to reduce the morbidity (injury) and mortality (death) that result from hazardous substances events, which are experienced by first responders, employees, and the general public.
- Indoor Air Quality
- Reduces the health effects of indoor air quality problems by providing technical expertise to Florida homeowners. This is a non regulatory program with no enforcement function.
- Internship in Environmental Health
- The Department of Health sponsors certain intership projects.
- Migrant Labor Camps
- Ensures that migrant labor camps in the state provide structurally sound housing with adequate space, heating and ventilation, are sanitary and have adequate water and sewage disposal systems;
- Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Parks
- Ensures that visitors to parks and camps are provided with safe drinking
water, proper sewage disposal, and adequate sanitary facilities and conditions.
- Radon Program
- Reduces the risk of radon induced lung cancer by providing Floridians with a technical resource on radon health effects testing and mitigation. Provides a measure of consumer protection through the certification of radon testing and mitigation professionals.
- Tanning Facilities
- Reduces the risk of disease and injury to people who use tanning devices at tanning facilities in the state through plan review, inspection, consultation and complaint investigation.
- Zoonotic Disease Information
- Information and veterinary consultation about diseases transmitted between animals and people. Detecting, preventing and tracking zoonotic diseases.
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