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.

• Methamphetamine Laboratory Program

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.