New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY
Subchapter 7A - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Section 8:52-7A.1 - Scope and purpose

This subchapter addresses the protection against and prevention of environmental factors that may adversely impact human health or the ecological balances essential to sustained human health and environmental quality, whether in the natural or man-made environment. Environmental health practice refers to those aspects of human health that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social and psychosocial factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially adversely affect the health of humans.