Past Issues of The Florida Journal
of Environmental Health

Updated January 23, 2008

#197, Fall 2007

• In My Opinion: Produce is Ripe for Regulation
• Dirty Bombs: Weapons of Mass Disruption
• Golden Pen Award Winners Through the Years
• Volusia County Health Department Environmental Health Response to a Cryptosporidium Cluster With a Common Recreational Water Exposure at a Resort in Daytona Beach
• FEHA’s First Scientific Poster Session, a Success

#196, Spring/Summer 2007

• Of Mice and Men, with a Twist
• Rash Illness Outbreaks at Daycare Facilities Associated with the Tussock Moth Caterpillar, April 2004 and April 2005
• From the Drawing Board to Decommission: Environmental Surveillance of Florida’s Nuclear Power Plants
• Wekiva Onsite Study: a Collective Effort for a Sustainable Future
• The Importance of Developing a Chronic, Non-Infectious Disease Surveillance System for Environmental Public Health
• West Wabasso PACE EH Assessment Project Completion and Reflections
• Road Construction: A Story About EH Preparedness Training in Four Chapters
• Public Health Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment Program
• Commentary: The Mysterious Puzzle of Preparing for Hurricane Season

#195, Winter 2006

• Investigation of a Norovirus Outbreak at a Santa Rosa County State Recreation Area May 2006
• Florida Hazardous Substances Emergency Events
  Surveillance Activities in Classifying the Severity of
  Carbon Monoxide Exposures of the 2005 Hurricane Season
• Springs Protection and Wastewater Treatment:  Our piece of the pie
• Personal Perspective:  Five Years of Public Health Preparedness

#194, Fall 2006

• In My Opinion - Sailing Toward “Smart Growth: ” Management of Onsite Wastewater Treatment in the Florida Keys
• An AEM Abstract: Genetically Modified Food
• AEM Photo Montage
• 2006 FEHA Award Winners
• 2006 Golden Pen Award

#193, Summer 2006

#192, Spring 2006

• An Investigation of Complaints of Illness Alleged to be Associated with a Sewage Lift Station in Sarasota County
• Florida’s 2005 Hurricane Season: Lessons Continuing to be Learned
  An Adventure of a Lifetime in Japan
• Spotlight on FEHA Members: Volunteering as Judges at a Middle School Science Fair

#191, Winter 2005

• Championing the Effort to End Mercury Spills in Florida
• Perspectives on the Science Supporting Florida’s Public Health Policy for Community Water Fluoridation
• Personal Perspectives: EH Strike Team Experiences in Mississippi Post-Katrina
• In My Opinion: West Wabasso PACE EH Assessment Project Update
• The End of an Era: William Jenkins Retires

#190, September 2005

• Environmental Health Strike Teams – Improving With Experience
• Milestone for Water Well Construction in South Florida
• In My Opinion: Is the Management of Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems Given Proper Emphasis in Florida’s Administrative Code 64E-6?
• In My Opinion: The Future of Environmental Health
• Ultraviolet Exposure from Mercury Vapor Lamps
• Conspiracy Theory (or Just a Thought-Provoking Look at a Well-Accepted Public Health Practice?)

#189, June 2005

• DOH’s New Contaminated Sites Call Center: Responding to DEP’s Contaminated Sites Notification Project
• In My Opinion: Beleaguered Bus – the Director’s Cut
• Septic System Contamination Study of Groundwater in Golden Gate City, Collier County, Florida
• Risk – It’s not a game (it’s a book!)
• A Special Pictorial: Kosher Kitchens and the Passover Celebration

#188, March 2005

• Flouride Concentrations in Shallow Wells in Northeast Florida
• FEHA Member in the Spotlight: Volunteering and Mentoring at the State Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF of Florida)
• New Chemical Surveillance Program at Florida Department of Health
• The Laws of Keeping Kashrut and the Challenges of Inspecting a Kosher Kitchen
• New Strands in an Old Web: An Extreme Make Over of the Division of Environmental Health Website
• EH Preparedness Case File: Public Health Anthrax Response 2001
• In My Opinion: EH Perspectives in Georgia, Florida and China

#187, December 2004

• Post Hurricane Response for Arboviruses: The Outbreak that Never Was
• Food and Waterborne Disease Preparedness and Disaster Recovery Activities
• The Devastation the Migrant Farmworker Population Received as a Result of the Hurricanes
• New Program Being Developed to Protect Florida’s Mobile Home Parks From Future Hurricanes
• Keeping Tabs on Florida’s Nuclear Power Reactors During the 2004 Hurricane Season
• Lessons Learned from Sewage Spills Following Florida’s Hurricanes
• In My Opinion: Stress Management: After the Hurricanes
• Making Some Order Out of Chaos: Week One after a Hurricane
• GIS in the Division of Environmental Health: Response to 2004 Hurricane Season
• FDOH Environmental Health’s Response to Florida’s History-Making Hurricane Season of 2004
• Case Study: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Avoided By Marion CHD Staff Assisting in Hurricane Charley Cleanup Work
• EH Recovery Steps: Hurricane Preparedness Checklist

#186, September 2004

• Florida Department of Health’s Aquatic Toxins Program
• Follow-Up Study of Florida Red Tide-Associated Respiratory Illness
• Disease Rides on a Beleaguered Bus: A training opportunity for all of us
• Sunshine State in the Land of the Midnight Sun: A Report from the 2004 NEHA Annual Educational Conference and Exhibit in Anchorage, Alaska
• District News from Big Bend, Central, Emerald Coast, Gold Coast, Gulf Coast, Halifax and Tampa Bay districts
• CEU Quiz

#185, June 2004

• In My Opinion: Daycare Safety and Communicable Disease
• Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling (with thanks and apologies to Jimmy Buffett)
• An Overview of Florida Department of Health Fish Exposure Investigations,
  Spring 1998 through Spring 2004
• Maintaining Vigilance for a Deadly Scourge: Rabies in Florida
• In My Opinion: Veterinary Public Health (or People Are Animals, Too)
• Update on 2004 Environmental Health Legislative Issues
• District news from the Central, Halifax, and Tampa Bay districts
• CEU Quiz

#184, March 2004

• An Investigation into a Salmonella Enterica serotype Typhimurium Outbreak in a BBQ Restaurant, Hillsborough County, June 18 - July 6, 2003
• A Pilot Study of Microbial Contamination of Subtropical Recreational Waters
• An Interview with New Assistant Division Director of Environmental Health, Daniel Parker, M.S.P., G.A.L.
• District news from the Central, Halifax, and Tampa Bay districts
• CEU Quiz

#183, December 2003

• Pediatric Pesticide Poisoning in South Florida
• Food Hygiene Program - Millennium Edition: Insightful Inspections, Based on HACCP Principles
• Migrant Farmworkers: The Challenges Four Decades Later
• Food Safety and the New Threat Environment
• Spotlight on a FEHA Member: Biking Across America to Fight Leukemia
• District news from the Big Bend, Central, District III (now to be known as Suwannee), Gulf Coast, Halifax , Tampa Bay , and Treasure Coast districts
• CEU Quiz
• FEHA BOD Outgoing Board Meeting Minutes from the AEM
• FEHA BOD Incomin g Board Meeting Minutes from the AEM
• FEHA Annual Business Meeting Minutes from the AEM

#182, September 2003

• Division of Environmental Health Reorganizes
• "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
  Natural Disasters and Risk Communication
• The Feeding and Care of the Septic Tank System:
  What is a Septic Tank System and How does it Work?
• Investigation into Arsenic in Jackson County Wells
• The Limits of Consumer Food Safety Capacity

#181, June 2003

• Florida's Fish Consumption Advisory - Updated Information for the Environmental Health Professional
• Meet DOH's New Division Director of Environmental Health: Lisa Conti
• The Florida Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories: Your Public Health Laboratory
• More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Septic Tanks: A Short History of Sewage Systems
• Food Hygiene Program - Millenium Edition: Regulatory Foundation (Second in a Series)
• The Source Water Assessment and Protection (SWAP) Program

#180, March 2003

• A Visual Tour of Four Florida Community Sharps Collection Programs
• Risk for Occupational Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens Via Needle-Sticks to Environmental Service Workers
• Community Needle Collection and Disposal Programs In Florida
• Children´s Environmental Exposure: Perceptions of African-American Parents in Tampa, Florida
• Understanding Conformity Assessment and its Relationship to Environmental Health

#179, December, 2002

• Outbreak of Saxitoxin Illness following Consumption of Florida Pufferfish
• Introduction and Background
• Migrant Farm Worker Private Well Survey - View the Map
• Sharon Heber: Moving on to Greener Pastures
• Food Hygiene Program - Millennium Edition
• Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance
• Volusia CHD's Environmental Health Professionals: A Focus on Charity
• RS Corner

#178, September, 2002

• The Florida Environmental Health Association (FEHA) Annual Awards
• In My Opinion: Global Warming, a Creeping Crisis
• In My Opinion: To Wash, or Not To Wash
• AEM photos
• FEHA BOD Meeting Minutes from May 3
• Tampa Bay District News
• Big Bend District News
• 2002 FEHA Scholarship Winners
• 2003 NEHA Scholarship Information and Application
• NEHA Update
• A Poem Commemorating Volusia County Health Department's 60th Anniversary
• Environmental Health Week Proclamation

#177, June, 2002

• West Nile Virus First Transmission Season in Florida: 2001- 492 horse cases and 202 chicken seroconversions but only sporadic human disease
• CDC’s Strategic Planning and Florida’s Public Health Protection Program for Small Drinking Water System
• Working Partnerships: How Florida Government Agencies Work Together to Protect Public Health at a Hazardous Waste Site
• Jack Pittman: Prepared for Public Health
• Temperature Inversions, Radon and thee...Elevated Ambient Radon Levels in Central Florida
• EPA Hosts National School Symposium
• Some Highlights of the History of Florida Environmental Health - Part TwoRestoration Continues on the State Board of Health Building
• NEHA Update
• History of the Florida Journal of Environmental Health, 1999 to Present

#176, March, 2002

• Pesticides as Endocrine Disruptors in Environmental Health
• Ultraviolet Sterilization: The cost effective, environmentally friendly alternative to chlorination of wastewater
• The Jefferson Communities Public Water System: A Grassroots Solution to a Rural Potable Water Environmental Health Problem
• A Study on (CCA) Pretreated Wood in Child Care
• A Body Piercer's Take on the Emerging Trends of the Art
• Some Highlights of the History of Florida Environmental Health
• Onsite Wastewater Down Under

#175, December, 2001

• A Brief History of the NFSS (National Food Safety System) Laboratory Workgroup
• Unlawful Septic Tank Contracting: A Leveled Field Benefits All Stakeholders
• Health Hazards of Methamphetamine
• “Meet the Secretary, Dr. John Agwunobi” - A Personal Interview
• Historian's Corner: FEHA History Lives On!
• Department of Health Offers West Nile Virus Hotline

#174 - September, 2001

• Smoke Detectors and Associated Public Health Risks Factors
• Lead (Pb) Can Be a Tough Issue for Lower Income Households
• Cattle Dipping Vats in Florida
• Comparison of Environmental Health in the U.K. and the U.S.: An Interview with Annabel Caine, Environmental Health Officer
• FEHA Executive Director Seldon L. Carsey and Executive Secretary Peggy J. Carsey Retire
• Special Achievement Award Received by the Department of Health's Bureau of Environmental Epidemiology Food and Waterborne Disease Epidemiology Team

#173 - June, 2001

• Public Risk Perception and Evaluation of a Sanitary Nuisance Involving a Chicken Farm in Hernando County, Florida
• ’Tis the Season (for Skin Cancer)
• Tin Poisoning Associated with Pineapple Chunks at an Elementary School in Pasco County
• 50+ Years of the Sanichat and the Florida Journal of Environmental Health--Part 3 (1980-1990)

#172, March/April, 2001

• Radon in Drinking Water
• Indoor Radon in Florida
• Outbreak of Gastrointestinal Illness Associated with Food Served at a Wedding Reception
• Amendment to the Florida Clean Indoor Air Act During the 2000 Legislative Session Reduces the Smoking Area in Restaurants
• Bureau of Onsite Sewage Programs Educational Program Update

#171, December, 2000

• West (Nile Virus) Side Story; Is Florida Next?
• Women in Environmental Health in Florida, or, From the Good Ol' Boy Network to the Good Ol' People Network
• CEHAB Face-to-Face Meeting in Clearwater
• Rabid Cat Exposes Seven People in Hernando County
• 50 Years of the Sanichat and the Journal: A History
• USEPA Releases Onsite System Management Guidelines

#170, September, 2000

• Food, Water, Personal Hygiene, Housekeeping and Waste Disposal in Zero Gravity
• A Margin of Safety for Children in the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996: Is the US Environmental Protection Agency Meeting the Challenge?
• Anthrax—An Unusual Situation at the Orlando International Airport and Lessons Learned
• NIOSH and the Health Hazard Evaluation Program
• Cesspit Elimination in the Florida Keys - The Story of the Last Five Years
• Florida Healthy Beaches Monitoring Program

#169, June, 2000

• The Investigation and Analysis of Swimming Associated Illness Using the Fecal Indicator Enterococcus in Southern Florida's Marine Water
• Indoor Air Quality: The Palm Beach Experience
• An Evaluation of Hodgkin's Disease and All Cancers in Ocala, Marion County, Florida
• Community Environmental Health Advisory Board: Working in the Community
• Environmental Health Reorganizes and Creates a New Bureau of Water Programs
• Impacts of Fungal Contamination of Indoor Environments on Children

#168, March, 2000

• No Music at the Beach (water quality in the Keys)
• The Public's Right to Know, a Look at Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Reports
• Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis: A Review
• In My Opinion: One Year in Environmental Health
• In My Opinion: A Nearsighted Version of Environmental Health
• Christmas Banquet Outbreak in Pinellas County, December 10, 1999
• Florida Past : Yes Dorothy! There is No Place Like Home
• State Toxicologist Roger Inman Retires

#167, December, 1999

• Exposure Investigations
• Gastrointestinal Disease Associated with Interactive Fountain
• Does Educating Food Workers Work?
• Introduction to Mold and Moisture Intrusion Indoors: An Emerging Environmental Health Issue in Florida
• Historical Perspectives of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)

#166: September, 1999

• Body Piercing and the Florida Department of Health
• Food Irradiation - The Truth Untold
• Update on the Community Environmental Health Program Conference on May 25, 1999
• Pictorial: FEHA's Annual Educational Conference
• 1999 FEHA Award Winners

#165: June, 1999

• Comparison of Three Different Approaches to Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)
• The Applicability of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Nitrogen Based Density Model for Use in Florida
• An Outbreak of Influenza-like Illness During a Conference of Emergency Managers
• A History of 50 Years of Annual Educational Conferences of the Florida Environmental Health Association - "The Formative Years"
• Outbreak Investigations in Tampa Bay from January through March, 1999
• Thirty Attend Training Session in St. Augustine

#164: March, 1999

• Estuary Associated Syndrome Surveillance Program
• Beach Water Sampling: The Pilot Program
• Preliminary Findings of a Pathogen and Microbial Indicators Survey of Charlotte Harbor, Florida
• Addressing Environmental Equity with the Environmental Health Advisory Board
• Crypto Linked to Diseased Fish in Florida

#163: September, 1998 - Environmental Health Responds to Raging Fires

• Flagler County's Fire Response, 1998
• Active Surveillance of Morbidity During the Wildfires in Central Florida
• Central Florida Operation Fight BAC
• Environmental Health in China: A Perspective

#162: July, 1998 - Florida's A.E.C., Cocoa Beach

• HACCP Investigation of a Foodborne Outbreak Associated with a Broward County Food Processor, Florida, 1998
• Conference for Food Protection
• Air Toxics
• What Kind of Member are You?

#161: March, 1998 - FEHA's 50th A.E.C.

• "What is with All the Changes to the Septic Tank Rule?"
• Applying the Behaviorial Sciences to Risk Assessment in Food Service Establishments
• Staphylococcus, A Knockout Blow
• FEHA's 50th Annual Education Conference Agenda

#160: November, 1997 - FEHA Goes Worldwide on the Internet

• The Potential Impact on Women of Environmental Exposures
• Estimation of the Volume and Disposal of Waste Automotive Coolant in Polk and Hillsborough Counties
• A Daycare Center Gastrointestinal Outbreak

#159: August, 1997 - FEHA's 1997 Annual Education Conference, Clearwater, Florida

• Climate Forecasting, Water Resources and Environmental Health: Impact of El Nino Associated withClimate Sensitive Diseases
• Awareness of Parasitic Infections
• Interview with Willard Gallbreath
• 1997 Annual Education Conference Update
• Florida Health and Medical Emergency Operations

#158: June, 1997

• Inside Ozone
• Reducing the Incidence of Foodborne Illness by the Prohibition of Bare Hand Contact of Food

#157: March, 1997 - Special 50th Anniversary Edition

• NOWRA
• Update on Surface Water Quality Project
• Celebrating FEHA's 50th Anniversary

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