Public Health Sanitation and Safety Program


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Description of Projects

Overview

Program Manager:Mark Colicchio

Phone:   609-588-3124

The Public Health, Sanitation and Safety Program of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services is committed to:

  • assessing and reducing human exposures to medical waste generated, stored, transported, collected, transferred, treated, destroyed, disposed of, or otherwise managed in New Jersey through its Regulated Medical Waste Project.

  • regulation of public campgrounds, development of regulations for tattooing, body piercing and permanent cosmetic procedures, institutional sanitation and infection control, and sanitary conditions impacting the quality of life in New Jersey through its General Sanitation Project.

  • certification of youth camps, regulation of public recreational bathing facilities, maintaining of ocean water quality, evaluation of state correctional institutions, monitor Pfiesteria occurences, provide oversight on mattress statute through its Environmental Health Hazards Project.

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