Research Centers, Facilities and Groups
Center Formation Announced
Colorado State University announced the formation of a new international environmental
medicine center looking at tainted food and other consumer products at home and abroad.
The
Center for Environmental Medicine will be launched during Gov. Bill Ritter's trade mission
to Asia next week when the university signs rare research and education partnership agreements
with Japan's National Institute of Radiological Sciences, which is Japan's equivalent of the
U.S. National Institutes of Health, and Gifu University's School of Medicine.
The center will focus on research that could mitigate the effects of chemicals and infectious
agents that contaminate food, consumer products and the environment. While global in mission,
the center will begin work immediately looking at environmental health issues related to
commerce in Asia. The center's partnership with Japan allows it access to products manufactured
there and in other countries with high exports. For example, along with the United States,
Japan is one of China's largest importers of goods, although many products from both countries
are exported globally.
Anticipated initial projects in Asia include research and educational efforts into issues such
as melamine in food products; heavy metal levels in water sources for agricultural products that
are distributed globally including soybeans; and the quality and purity of vitamin C. About
90 percent of the world's vitamin C is produced in China.
The center is closely aligned with the goals of the university's newly established School of
Global Environmental Sustainability. The school was established in July as the first of its
kind in the state and will be a national leader to focus on research to guide human-environment
interactions in sustainable ways.
Mailing Address
Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
EH Building - 1681 Campus Delivery
MRB Building - 1618 Campus Delivery
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
EH Building Phone: (970) 491-7038
Fax: (970) 491-2940
MRB Building Phone: (970) 491-5222
Fax: (970) 491-0623
Email: ERHSDepartment
