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Wearing high-level protective gear Public Health Service response teams collect samples for toxic substance identification. Since 1979 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have coordinated activities to protect the public's health against exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment. The Center for Environmental Health and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are the two organizational units within the CDC responsible for these activities. They include studies of indoor air quality, lead-based paint poisoning, and occupational exposure to asbestos and hundreds of other toxic and carcinogenic substances. Health studies of residents of Love Canal, an abandoned chemical waste dump in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1980 was one of their most well-known efforts.
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