Environmental Toxicology Program
The Environmental Toxicology Program provides to communities toxicological assessments of environmental data provided by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In addition, the Environmental Toxicology Program provides support for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health pesticide and fish toxics programs in collaboration with the MDPH Division of Food and Drugs. This is a necessary function for the Center since many of the decisions made regarding these two important public health issues affect other program areas within the Center. For example, the discovery of fish contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the New Bedford Harbor resulted in two separate activities:
- the MDEP's legal office closing New Bedford Harbor to fishing and;
- BEHA staff conducting the nation's largest prevalence study of human exposure to PCBs.
This program is a part of the Environmental Health.
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Contact Information
Environmental Toxicology Program
250 Washington Street, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 02108
Tel. (617) 624-5757
Fax (617) 624-5777
TTY (617) 624-5286
This information is provided by the Center for Environmental Health within the Department of Public Health.