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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety

Article L1313-11

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall specify the conditions of application of this chapter.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Administrative schemes

Article L1333-17

The person responsible for a nuclear activity shall implement the measures for informing persons likely to be exposed to ionising radiation that are made necessary by the nature and extent of the risk…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter III: Food vigilance

Article L1323-1

The food vigilance system applies to a list of foodstuffs laid down by decree in the Council of State.This decree sets out the organisational procedures for the food vigilance system.

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Section 2: Health monitoring

Article L1413-15

State services and local authorities, their public establishments, public and private health establishments, the armed forces health service, social and medico-social establishments and services, emer…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Combating the presence of asbestos

Article L1334-14

The bodies carrying out the surveys and inspections provide the ministers responsible for health and construction and the representative of the State in the département with the information required t…

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Chapter VI: Prevention of noise-related risks

Article L1336-1

Activities involving the broadcasting of sound at a high level, in any public place or place receiving the public, whether enclosed or open, shall be carried out in such a way as to protect the hearin…

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Section 2: Health monitoring

Article L1413-14

Any healthcare professional, healthcare establishment or medico-social establishment or service having observed either a healthcare-associated infection, including a nosocomial infection, or any serio…

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Chapter II: Ethics.

Article L1412-1

The role of the National Consultative Ethics Committee for Life Sciences and Health is to give opinions on the ethical problems and social issues raised by advances in knowledge in the fields of biolo…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Air and waste.

Article L1335-1

The provisions relating to the fight against air pollution and odours, taken in the interests of public health, are those set out in Title II of Book II of the Environment Code.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Information on substances and mixtures.

Article L1341-1

Manufacturers, importers or downstream users of any substance or mixture shall communicate, as soon as they receive a request to do so, to the bodies responsible for toxicovigilance or to any other co…

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