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.