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What You Can Do To Protect Your Health and the Environment in Washington State

There are many actions you can take to personally reduce your level of risk from exposure to contaminants and reduce the level of contaminants in the environment.   There are steps you can take at the individual level to protect your health, and that of your family members, and there are steps at the environmental and community levels.   To learn more about what steps you can take, select the areas that are of greatest concern to you:

Eat Fish, Be Smart, Choose Wisely

• Selecting Fish Low in Contaminants
• Preparing & Cooking Fish To Reduce Your Exposure to Contaminants

Reducing Your Mercury Risk

• At Home
• At Your School
• In Your Business
• As a local government agency

Reducing Your PBDE (Flame Retardants) Risk 

You Can Contact Federal and State Government Working to Reduce Contaminants in the Environment

• Washington State Department of Ecology
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Puget Sound Action Team

You Can Contact Community Groups Working to Reduce Contaminants in the Environment

• Washington Toxics Coalition
• WashPIRG Washington State Public Interest Research Group

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