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Chemicals and hazards

Chemicals and Hazards

  • Biomonitoring: Chemicals in People

  • How biomonitoring data is used; vision, purpose and strategies for biomonitoring.
  • Chemicals and Hazards: Exposures and Health Risks

  • List of chemicals and hazards that pose health risks.
  • Chemicals of Special Concern to Children’s Health

  • Information on pesticides, BPA, VOCs, PAHs and metals and their affect on children's health.
  • Environmental Exposure Grand Rounds

  • A collaboration between medical and public health specialties to explore the impact of environmental exposures on health.
  • Environmental Public Health Tracking

  • Data about environmental health hazards, people's exposure to hazards, and health effects.
  • Fish Consumption

  • Guidelines for eating fish that are low in contaminants.
  • Hazardous Sites and Substances

  • Recommendations for reducing exposures to contaminants from sites where hazardous materials are released.
  • Hazardous Waste Sites

  • How to report a concern with a chemical exposure, how MDH evaluates sites where chemicals have been released.
  • Healthy Homes

  • Information on lead, mold, radon, carbon monoxide and other household hazards.
  • Meth Lab Resources

  • Technical advice on the remediation (cleaning) of meth labs and decontamination of properties exposed to meth lab activities.
  • Occupational Health and Safety

  • Data on occupational respiratory diseases and adolescent workplace injuries.
  • Risk Assessment

  • Assessments, rules and guidance for chemicals in air and water.

Spotlight

  • Chemicals of Special Concern to Children's Health

Related Sites

  • Environmental Health Division
  • Reducing Exposures to Contaminants
  • MDH Guidance
  • Clean Water Fund
  • Drinking Water
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Last Updated: 09/14/2023

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