Environmental Health

The Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Project (EHHAP) has completed many regional and statewide studies of potential and actual adverse health outcomes from exposures to environmental contamination in New Jersey. These reports are listed below in chronological order and are organized into two main categories: 1) by health outcome (for example, cancer, elevated blood lead level); and 2) by source of exposure (for example, air, drinking water).

Birth and Infant Outcome

• Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Variation of Selected Birth Defects in New Jersey (2007) [pdf 896k]
• A Case-control Study of Neural Tube Defects and Drinking Water Contaminants (1998) [pdf 8.27m]
• Population-based Surveillance and Etiologic Research of Adverse Reproductive Outcomes and Toxic Wastes:
  • Phase I: Assembling Information on Adverse Reproductive Outcomes (1992) [pdf 4.58m]
  • Phase II: The evaluation and Development of Databases on Potential Environmental Exposures (1992) [pdf 3.96m]
  • Phase III: Correlational Analyses of Adverse Reproductive Outcomes and Environmental Pollution (1992) [pdf 7.04m]
  • Phase IVA: Public Drinking Water Contamination and Birthweight, Fetal Deaths, and Birth Defects (1992) [pdf 7.53m]
  • Phase IVB: Public Drinking Water Contamination and Birthweight and Selected Birth Defects (1992) [pdf 5.54m]
  • Phase IVB Appendix: Public Drinking Water Contamination and Birthweight and Selected Birth Defects (1992) [pdf 1.13m]

Cancer

• Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Incidence of Selected Cancers (2007) [pdf 3.06m]
• Exploring Geographic Scale for Cancer Incidence Mapping (2007) [pdf 84k]
• Radium in Drinking Water and the Incidence of Osteosarcoma (2003) [pdf 1.18m]
• Drinking Water Contamination and the Incidence of Leukemias and Non-Hodgkins Lymphomas (1993) [pdf 3.10m]
• A Case-Control Study of Radon and Lung Cancer among New Jersey Women (1989 ) [pdf 9.08m]
• Drinking Water Contamination and the Incidence of Leukemia: An Ecologic study (1987) [pdf 1.04m]

Childhood Blood Lead

• Analysis of Risk Factors for Elevated Levels of Blood Lead in New Jersey Children, 2000 – 2004 (2007) [pdf 825k]
  
  
  

Air

• Analysis of Environmental Risk Factors and Cancer Incidence in New Jersey (2007) [pdf 258k]
• Analysis of Risk Factors for Elevated Levels of Blood Lead in New Jersey Children, 2000 – 2004 (2007) [pdf 825k]
• Ozone Health Effects Field Study of Children and Counselors at Two Day Camps in New Jersey, July 1988 (1990) [pdf 1.33m]
• A Case-control Study of Radon and Lung Cancer among New Jersey Women (1989) [pdf 9.08m]

Drinking Water

• Analysis of Environmental Risk Factors and Cancer Incidence in New Jersey (2007) [pdf 2.58k]
• Analysis of Risk Factors for Elevated Levels of Blood Lead in New Jersey Children, 2000 – 2004 (2007) [pdf 825k]
• Pediatric Leukemia: Cancer Susceptibility Genes and Drinking Water Contaminants: Report to NJDOH (2004) [abstract]
• Radium in Drinking Water and the Incidence of Osteosarcoma (2003) [pdf 1.18m]
• Private Well Testing Pilot Education Project (1999) [pdf 5.50m]
• Reportable Infectious Disease Incidence and State Coliform Standards Violations (1998) [pdf 321k]
• A Case-control Study of Neural Tube Defects and Drinking Water Contaminants (1998) [pdf 8.27m]
• Drinking Water Contamination and the Incidence of Leukemias and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas (1993) [pdf 3.10m]
• An Epidemiologic Report on Drinking Water and Fluoridation (1992) [pdf 0.98m]
• Drinking Water Contamination and the Incidence of Leukemia: An Ecologic Study (1987) [pdf 1.04m]

Surface Water

• Ocean Health Study Final Summary Report (1991) [pdf 2.30m]
• Progress Report: A Study of the Relationship between Illnesses and Ocean Beach Water Quality (1988) [pdf 5.39m]

Other

• Artificial Turf
  1. New Jersey Artificial Turf Investigation
  2. Letter to Consumer Product Safety Commission on the Findings of Lead in Some Artificial Turf Samples (2008) [pdf 43k]
  3. Letter to Consumer Product Safety Commission on Bioaccessibility Testing (2008) [pdf 564k]
  4. Centers for Disease Control Health Advisory: Potential Exposures to Lead in Artificial Turf: Public Health Issues, Actions and Recommendations (2008)
• Asbestos Cement Air Ducts
  • Preliminary Report on Indoor Asbestos in Homes Built with Asbestos Cement Air Ducts (1986) [pdf 737k]
• Mercury Flooring
  • NJDOH Guidance for School Districts and their Environmental Consultants [pdf 318k]
  • NJDOH FAQs for Parents [pdf 330k]
  • Information for Parents from Environmental Physicians [pdf 884k]
  • Information for Clinicians from Environmental Physicians [pdf 963k]
• School Laboratory Chemicals
  • NJDOH Guidance for Teachers and School Administrators on Safe Chemical Management
  • NJDOH Surveillance Findings on School Laboratory Chemical Inventories
• Urea Formaldehyde Foam
  • New Jersey Urea Formaldehyde Foam Insulation Study (1980) [pdf 2.40m]