The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Communities demand action and answers...
Aug 29, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Academies’ Environmental Health Matters Initiative (EHMI) staff is currently collecting input regarding the topic of...
Aug 06, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) recently...
Jul 18, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a family of human-made chemicals that are found in a wide range of products used by...
Jun 06, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The known extent of contamination of American communities with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow...
May 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The EPA is seeking public comment on a draft set of recommendations for cleaning up groundwater contaminated with PFOA and PFOS. When...
Apr 29, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is soliciting research to commence a multi-site study on the human health...
Apr 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has released its review of state environmental health legislation for 2018. In...
Apr 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced the communities identified for the upcoming exposure...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Communities demand action and answers when their drinking water contains the potentially harmful, man-made chemicals per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Although use of some of these chemicals has declined, increased water sampling over the past 10 years has revealed PFAS in numerous water...
The National Academies’ Environmental Health Matters Initiative (EHMI) staff is currently collecting input regarding the topic of their first public workshop, Identifying Opportunities to Understand, Control, and Prevent Exposure to PFAS. The workshop will be held on September 26-27, 2019 and will discuss human exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluroalkyl substances (PFAS) as well as innovative...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) recently announced the initiation of two exposure assessments, one near the Barnes Air National Guard Base site in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts and one near the Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base in the City of Martinsburg, […]
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a family of human-made chemicals that are found in a wide range of products used by consumers and industry. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new webpage on PFAS that will be updated soon with data tables. The FDA is working to better understand the potential dietary exposure […]
The known extent of contamination of American communities with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate. As of March 2019, 610 locations in 43 states are now known to be affected, including drinking water systems serving an estimated 19 million people. The latest update of an interactive […]
The EPA is seeking public comment on a draft set of recommendations for cleaning up groundwater contaminated with PFOA and PFOS. When finalized, the recommendations will provide a starting point for making site-specific cleanup decisions. The guidance is based on the EPA’s current scientific understanding of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) toxicity and is intended […]
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is soliciting research to commence a multi-site study on the human health effects of exposures to drinking water contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Proposed study sites must include communities using PFAS-contaminated private residential wells or public water systems. Exposure assessment will be based on...
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has released its review of state environmental health legislation for 2018. In 2018, state legislatures introduced 3,486 bills relating to environmental health, enacting 686 of them. This is the most bills on environmental health NCSL has seen since it began tracking the issue in 2012. Bills on environmental […]
CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) announced the communities identified for the upcoming exposure assessments that will examine human exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). As part of the National Defense Authorization Act, CDC/ATSDR was asked to conduct exposure assessments in communities near current or former military installations. These...
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