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CENTERS
 • Center for Environmental Medicine
 • Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Center
FACILITIES AND LABS
 • Biomolecular Ultracentrifuge Facility
 • Central Instrument Facilities
 • Lab Animal Resources
 • Macromolecular Resources Research Core Laboratory
GROUPS
 • Quantitative and Computational Toxicology Research Group

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