News Release                            For Immediate Release

                                                                                                                     January 12, 2007

Environmental Public Health Week:  January 15 – 21, 2007

Public Health Inspectors at the Grey Bruce Health Unit are pleased to announce the launch of Environmental Public Health Week 2007. This initiative was established in 2003 with the aim of recognizing the work of environmental health professionals and to highlight issues related to Environmental Health. Grey Bruce Public Health Inspectors are members of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (CIPHI).

Public Health Inspectors provide services in food safety, drinking water quality, rental housing conditions, recreation water quality, personal service facilities, childcare and institutional facilities, air quality, health hazard investigations, outbreak management, injury prevention, sewage disposal assessment, land use management, infection control and communicable disease consultation.

For further information call the Grey Bruce Health Unit at 519-376-9420 or visit our web site at www.publichealthgreybruce.on.ca.

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Attachments: Environmental Public Health Week Poster for 2007

For more information:

Chris Munn

Manager Health Protection

Grey Bruce Health Unit

519-376-9420 or 1-800-263-3456 ext 235