Our goal with Health First Indiana is to ensure that every Hoosier has access to the core public health services that allow them to achieve their optimal health and well-being by prioritizing the vector control program, ensuring sanitary operations of tattoo parlors and facilities where eyelash extensions are performed, and approving an ordinance that incorporates risk-based assessments for food establishments.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)Environmental Health includes permitting and inspecting On-Site Sewage Systems (OSS) and food facilities, whether old or new, temporary or permanent. The environmentalists investigate complaints of failures and issues that contribute to public health problems, health hazards, and disease. Our department works closely with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), the Indiana Food Protection Division, and the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH).
Please send all soil reports to environmental@decaturcounty.in.gov
ANIMAL BITES
If you are a victim of an animal bite, you should seek medical attention. If you are the owner of the animal that has bitten someone, file an animal bite report immediately. Any adult may report an animal bite. Physicians are required by state law to report animal bites to their local health Department. Information from the report will be evaluated for the risk of rabies.
Allie Myers, Environmental Health Specialist
(812) 663-8301 Ext. 7715 | Email: amyers@decaturcounty.in.gov
Alicia Nobbe, Environmental Health Specialist - Food Protection
(812) 663-8301 Ext. 7719 | Email: anobbe@decaturcounty.in.gov
| Retail Food Information: | |
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| New Ownership, Remodel, Newly Built Restaurant or Mobile Food Truck: | |
| What should I do during an emergency: | - Food Safety After a Fire - Food Safety During Floods - Food Safety During Power Outages - Sewage Backup |
| Indiana State Food Codes: | 410 IAC 7-22 Certification of Food Handlers - 410 IAC 7-24 Retail Food Establishment Sanitation Requirements - Public Health Reasons for 410 IAC 7-24 (Explanation of the Code) - 410 IAC 7-15.5 Sanitation of Bed and Breakfast Establishment |
Other Links:
- ISDH Food Recalls
- Breathe Easy Signs
- Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco
- Indiana Septic Code (Title 410 IAC 6-8.1)
- Radon Info
- Mold in your Home
- Indiana State Board of Animal Health
WEST NILE VIRUS
The Indiana State Department of Health Department has provided funding to allow the Local Health Departments to purchase Mosquito Dunks, a larvicidal product. The active ingredient is Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, a bacterial spore that is safe for animals and fish. It kills mosquitoes by scratching up their stomach and intestinal linings, making them unable to ingest food. Mosquito Dunks are free to the public as long as our supply lasts. You can call the Health Department at (812) 663-8301, Ext. 7715, and let us known how large your area of standing water is. A calculation can be made as to how many Dunks you will need.
TICKS AND DISEASE PREVENTION
Ticks are small, insect-like animals that live in woodland, mixed shrub, and grassland environments. They have two body segments and eight legs while insects have three body segments and six legs. The life cycle of ticks involve the following three stages: Egg, Larva, Nymph, and Adult.
About fifteen different species of ticks occur in Indiana. Only four species are normally encountered by people and their pets. These are the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis; the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum; the blacklegged tick (also known as the deer tick or the Lyme disease tick), lxodes scapularis, and the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus. In Indiana, ticks are responsible for transmitting several diseases. The three most common are Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, and ehrlichiosis. For more information on ticks, diseases, and prevention, see the CDC website.