 | Vol. 6 No. 4 Spring 1999 |
| A Newsletter About New Jersey's Water Quality Programs |
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Outreach Brochures for Fish Consumption Advisories Available |
EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry are sponsoring a nationwide effort to inform health professionals and their patients about the dangers of eating fish harvested from contaminated waters. Through a letter to 100,000 pediatricians, OB-GYNs, and family physicians across the nation, doctors are asked to advise their patients to pay attention to state or tribal-issued fish consumption advisories. Doctors will also receive brochures that describe how to safely consume fish and minimize exposure to contaminated fish.
Copies of these brochures are also being sent to state and tribal environmental and public health professionals, along with a paper summarizing the latest research on the dangers of eating fish contaminated with PCBs. These chemicals are responsible for many of the fish consumption advisories in the United States.
Copies of the brochures and information on fish and wildlife advisories are available at the EPA's Office of Science and Technology website at www.epa.gov/OST/fish/.
(Reprinted from EPA WaterNews, January 1999)
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Last revision Friday, March 19, 1999