Environmental health care
Environmental health care involves activities aimed at reducing, eliminating, and preventing health risks arising from the environment. It is part of preventive primary health care, where potential risks are considered, and the environment that may affect human health is monitored.
Environmental health care includes the supervision of health protection, food safety, tobacco legislation, as well as animal health and welfare monitoring, and veterinary services.
Instructions
Contact your health inspector when, for example:
- you are setting up a new food premises or there is a change of operator in a food premises
- you are planning to change or renovate a food premises
- you want to complain about food quality, labelling or the food business handling the food
- you need advice or guidance on drawing up a self-monitoring plan
- you suspect you have food poisoning or have doubts about the quality of well water
- you are setting up a new gym, beauty or pedicure salon
- you suspect damp damage to your home or other health hazards
- you want information about a pest found in food or housing
Contact your veterinarian when, for example:
- you need basic veterinary services
- you suspect animal abuse
- you need guidance or advice on the prevention or control of animal diseases
Environmental health permits and notifications
We recommend that you primarily make your notifications via the Ilppa environmental health e-service.
Contact details:
We ask customers to use our online service or to contact us by telephone.
Contact information for the Health Inspectorate (In Finnish)
Environmental protection contact details (In Finnish)
Veterinarians’ contact details
Shared Email Addresses for Environmental Health Services:
Health Supervision Matters
terveystarkastajat@mikkeli.fi
Food Control Matters
elintarvikevalvonta@mikkeli.fi
Environmental health control plans and fees
Monitoring plan
The municipality must draw up and regularly approve an environmental health monitoring plan to ensure that monitoring is of high quality and prevents health hazards.
The control plan consists of the plans under the Health Protection Act, the Foodstuffs Act, the Tobacco Act and the Veterinary Surveillance Plan.
The control plan takes into account the joint national control programme for environmental health and the sectoral plans.
Fees
The municipality must charge the operator a fee in accordance with the tariff it has approved, for example for inspections, sampling and analysis of samples included in the control plan.
The fee schedule specifies the fees for food law, tobacco law, pharmaceutical law, health protection law and veterinary care.
Basic fee
From 2022, with the amendment of the Food Act and the Health Protection Act. A basic annual fee of €150 will be charged for some of the sites subject to systematic controls.
Some operators are exempted from the basic fee, for example because of the small scale of their activities.