Food Safety Training is critical for public safety and protection. The license holder for any PEI licensed food premises serving food is required to have successfully completed an approved food safety training program. Evidence of food safety training (a certificate or other...
All raw milk produced in Canada must be pasteurized in an approved pasteurizer before it can be sold to consumers. Provincially licensed milk processing facilities in PEI are thoroughly and routinely inspected in accordance with the Public Health Act Milk Processing Regulations...
A personal service facility is a business in which a person provides a personal service to or on the body of another person. Examples of personal services include, but not limited to, body piercing, hair services, manicure, massage, pedicure, tattooing, teeth whitening (excluding...
You must have a provincial licence to operate, construct or maintain any facility used to kill or process animals intended for human consumption. A veterinarian must inspect and approve all carcasses in the licensed facility before the meat can be offered for sale after...
The Prince Edward Island Chief Public Health Officer’s Report and Health Trends 2014 summarizes key health information from a variety of sources, both federal and provincial. The intent of the report is to examine health trends on PEI, describe Chief Public Health Office (CPHO)...
In September 2011 at the Annual General Meeting of the Prince Edward Island (PEI) Medical Society, the Society passed a resolution asking for a retrospective epidemiological review of suicides in PEI.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD is a term for multiple chronic respiratory diseases that include chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
A chronic disease affecting many adults and children in Prince Edward Island (PEI), asthma is the result of hyper-responsive airways leading to chronic airway inflammation and an abnormal narrowing of the airway.
The Prince Edward Island Student Drug Use Report describes the prevalence and drug use trends for tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and other drugs as reported by PEI students in grades 6 through 12.