Environmental Health Service

Environmental Health Service

n
(Social Welfare) (in Britain) a service provided by a local authority, which deals with prevention of the spread of communicable diseases, food safety and hygiene, control of infestation by insects or rodents, etc
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Throughout the last 10 days the club have been working with NHS Forth ValleyTrust and the council environmental health service to establish the source.
Transformation of the environmental health service in SA remains incomplete; for example, devolution of environmental health to local government is unfinished in several provinces.
The fine follows an investigation by Caerphilly County Borough Council's environmental health service team into the Cashino Gaming Ltd store in High Street, Blackwood.
The urgent probe into how it happened is being carried out by Calderdale Council's environmental health service.
4 August 2010 - Officers from the Scottish Highland Council's Environmental Health service yesterday visited a farm in Auldearn, located about 20km northeast of Inverness, to interview the farmer who owned 2 of the bulls born in the UK from embryos from a cloned cow.
Officers from the environmental health service responded by visiting Mr McKay in an effort to resolve the matter informally.
1 In December 1980, industrial hygienists with the Occupational Environmental Health Service, Naval Regional Medical Center, Jacksonville, Florida, conducted impact noise measurements during weapons firing at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), Glynco, Georgia (outdoor range); in April 1984, a private firm measured peak sound pressure levels in the FLETC indoor firearms range; in July 1991, the authors conducted similar tests at the U.S.
South Tyneside Council prosecuted Rayner, 31, of Marshall Wallis Road, South Tyneside, after he ignored several warnings from the council's Environmental Health Service.
Chun-Hung Cheung of Mandarin House, Market Street, Knighton, was fined more than pounds 2,500 under the Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations by Powys County Council's environmental health service after rats' droppings were also found in his kitchen.
South Tyneside Council is taking part in the event, which starts on Monday, and the authority is looking to raise awareness of noise pollution and the ways its Environmental Health Service can use to tackle the problem.
"The Environmental Health service has excellent prospects for improvement.

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