Health and Wellness: Environmental Health Program

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Environmental Health Program


	Public Health Act
	Community Services, Seniors and Labour

The basic goal of this program is to protect the public health of all Islanders and visitors. Legislative authority for this program falls under the Public Health Act.

Activities under this program are complaint/enquiry generated and can involve such wide-ranging activities as:

sewage
garbage
rodents
bio-terrorism or other current issue which may impact on the health of the public (emergency measures)
tattoo parlours/body piercing

Involvement in these cases is often in cooperation with the Departme nt of E nvir onment, Justice and Labour.

This information has been taken from the website:
Health and Wellness
URL: http://www.gov.pe.ca/health/index.php3?number=1020722

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