{"term":{"id":"15672","title":"environmental hygiene","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - environmental hygiene","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.15672","code":"15672","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: environmental sanitation","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Practical control measures used to improve the basic environmental conditions affecting human health, for example, clean water supply, human and animal waste disposal, protection of food from biological contamination, and housing conditions, all of which are concerned with the quality of the human environment.","links":[{"term":"health","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15757"}],"sources":["PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1215 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac200779071153)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15672\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15672\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15672\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'environmental hygiene' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.15672","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-24T01:43:15+00:00"}}