Monitors food service establishments and children's camps. Conducts routine inspections, and investigates reports of illness or injury associated with a public establishment.

* Offers adult and child immunization clinics.* Provides Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.* Offers an Expectant Parents Health Guide that provides support and home visits to newborns and their parents.* Offers tuberculosis testing and treatment.* Provides STD testing.* Offers Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Developmental Disabilities (EIP).* Offers public health emergency preparedness planning.* Offers COVID-19 testing and vaccines. * Offers public health environmental services. Rabies control program. Household hazardous waste. Water testing and safety. ATUPA (Tobacco Sales Compliance Checks). Restaurant and children's camp inspections.* Offers health education and health promotion. Tobacco prevention and cessation. Injury prevention (Helmet program). Dental health education. Wellness and general health promotion.

Environmental Health is responsible for routine inspections of all food service establishments in Schenectady County. This includes restaurants, bars, taverns, caterers, and fast food establishments. Inspections are completed on a risk-based schedule. One to two inspections are completed per establishment each year. Priority is given to higher risk establishments.The unit is also responsible for investigation of all food service illness and/or general food service complaints.

* Conducts inspections of food manufacturers, grocery stores, warehouses, and bottling plants. * Evaluates and inspects food labeling and advertising. * Seizes unfit or adulterated food. * Licenses food operators. * Samples food products for analysis. * Investigates consumer complaints.

Provides services directed at the prevention of disease and injury as a result of adverse environmental conditions. The New York State Public Health Law, local laws and the state and county sanitary codes entrust the division with the over-site of numerous facilities as mandated. Consumer utility complaints for heat. Enforcement of the New York State Clean Indoor Air Act smoking ban.

Aims to assure safe food in restaurants, clean and safe drinking water, safe bathing beaches, swimming pools and children's camps, and clean air and water.

DBCH conducts inspections, monitors, and approves permits for public facilities including children's camps, food service facilities, swimming pools, sewage collection/ disposal and treatment. Investigates food borne illnesses, sewage failures, animal infestations, and animal bites. Provides technical assistance for chemical spills or other hazardous waste. Also does compliance checks on tobacco retails to enforce state and local clean air regulations.

Aims to assure safe food in restaurants, clean and safe drinking water, safe bathing beaches, swimming pools and children's camps, and clean air and water.

Monitors and inspects public facilities and investigates complaints of food-borne and water supply-related illnesses, as well as injuries. In addition, the division responds to residential sanitation nuisance complaints and permits sewage disposal systems, and also inspects and issues permits for restaurants, motels, campgrounds, swimming pools, etc.

Aims to assure safe food in restaurants, clean and safe drinking water, safe bathing beaches, swimming pools and children's camps, and clean air and water.

Aims to assure safe food in restaurants, clean and safe drinking water, safe bathing beaches, swimming pools and children's camps, and clean air and water.

Responsible for protecting the community from adverse health effects that may result from environmental pollution, unsanitary conditions or unsafe practices. Activities include backflow prevention, inspection and regulation of public beaches and swimming pools, information on beach openings and closings, inspections and monitoring of children's summer camps, demolition permits, monitors the quality of drinking water, conducts hearings on alleged violations of Public Health Laws, inspects food service establishments and investigates foodborne disease outbreaks, provides training for food service managers, responds to complaints regarding dog waste, garbage overflowing sewage and bird feeding, responds to heating complaints, regulates the removal or abandonment of fuel oil tanks, tests for lead exposure, investigates reports of animal bites and rodent complaints, inspects sewer connections/closures, controls the spread of mosquitoes, and inspects and provides sanitary control over motels and hotels. Call for more information.For recorded information on beach openings/closings in Nassau County call (516)227-9000.

Inspects food service establishments, investigates foodborne disease outbreaks, responds to complaints, and provides training for food industry personnel. Under this jurisdiction, the Nassau County Department of Health permits over 5,700 food serving establishments in Nassau County, including restaurants, delis, mobile food trucks, schools, senior feeding units, and food vending units. It also reviews plans for new and renovated food-service establishments. Call for detailed information.

* Conducts inspections of food manufacturers, grocery stores, warehouses, bottling plants.

* Evaluates and inspects food labeling and advertising.

* Seizes unfit or adulterated food.

* Licenses food operators.

* Samples food products for analysis.

* Investigates consumer complaints.

Conducts investigations of public health nuisance complaints and submits written reports to Health and Code Enforcement Officers. Provides technical assistance to county residents in regard to their private water supply and sewage disposal systems. Collects water samples and conducts sewage system evaluations, for a fee, upon request.

Provides public health services in the areas of food protection, residential sanitation (including hotels and motels), and temporary facilities including schools, day care facilities, public swimming pools, campgrounds, and tanning facilities.

* Monitors community water systems, non-community water supplies, distribution. Oversees water emergencies, conducts inspections and evaluations. Monitors operator qualifications.* Permits facilities, conducts food operator training, inspects food establishments including temporary facilities and vending machines.* Regulates residential and recreational sanitation. Regulates sewage disposal, new and existing.* Operates programs for rabies control. Investigates all animal bites, arranges treatment for people bitten by animals.* Enforces the Clean Indoor Air Act.

Provides public health services in programs that respond to concerns dealing with the indoor and outdoor environment.

Inspects and exercises surveillance over all food service facilities in Broome county. This includes requiring correction of any violations in Part 14 of NYS Sanitary Code and enforcement of State and local provisions of the law.

public drinking waterfood served to the publicpublic swimming pools and beacheschildren's campshotels/motelscampgroundsresidential developmentson-site sewage systems (septic tanks and holding tanks)mass gatheringsmobile home parksby requiring construction and operating permits and carrying out site investigations.Investigates public health nuisances such as:*chemical exposures*childhood lead poisoning*tobacco smoking complaints*indoor air problems*threatening or strangely acting wild animals: call for a list of licensed nuisance wildlife control persons (trappers) who will remove the animal at the property owner's expense.*wild animal bites: if the wild animal is suspected of being rabid, call 607-274-6688, 24 hours a day.Rabies: vaccination clinics at different locations throughout the year for dogs, cats and ferrets. Click here for details on upcoming clinics http://www.tompkinscountyny.gov/health/eh/rabies#clinics

Monitors campgrounds, children's camps, drinking water, food served to the public, housing hygiene, lead poisoning prevention, mobile home parks, pools, beaches, spas, rabies prevention, radon, sewage systems, smoking restrictions and temporary residences.

* Preserves and protects the public from diseases, environmental hazards, and health risks through direct services, enforcement of health codes and medical policies.* Monitoring, processing, and investigation of complaints regarding; Air pollution Chemical spills Food protection Lead poisoning screening/Lead Poisoning Prevention Program Public water systems* Provides information on the handling, abatement, and management of asbestos.

Responsible for implementing programs and providing information to help individuals live healthier lives by minimizing environmental health threats. Some efforts are targeted to the population at large, such as monitoring of public and private drinking water supplies, food safety in restaurants, fire safety in hotels, and permitting of mass gatherings. Other programs target specific needs such as interventions to prevent illness from rabies, lead poisoning, failing septic systems, and sale of tobacco products to minors.

* Monitors community water systems, non-community water supplies, distribution. Oversees water emergencies, conducts inspections and evaluations. Monitors operator qualifications.* Permits facilities, conducts food operator training, inspects food establishments including temporary facilities and vending machines.* Regulates residential and recreational sanitation. Regulates sewage disposal, new and existing.* Operates programs for rabies control. Investigates all animal bites, arranges treatment for people bitten by animals.* Enforces the Clean Indoor Air Act.