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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 47
Meaning of environmental health event
(1) An
"environmental health event" is an event involving human exposure to a
substance or other thing that is known to have, or is reasonably suspected of
having, an adverse effect on human health.
(2) Exposure may happen in
connection with— (a) a single identifiable event; or Example of a single
identifiable event— an outbreak in a hospital of a new strain of a
previously controlled bacterial infection
(b) a situation that happens over
a period of time. Example of a situation that happens over a period of time—
the exposure to industrial fumes, over a period of years, of persons in a
populated area
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