Project Highlight: Public Communication
Should I Eat Fish?
Client: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Freshwater fish from contaminated waters can have high levels of mercury, posing potential risks for recreational anglers and people who fish for food.
In partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ATSDR identified a need for developing an easy-to-understand brochure on the potential risks to pregnant women and children from eating fish caught in mercury-contaminated waters.
ORISE designed, developed, and conducted focus groups to test a brochure that explains the risks to pregnant women, nursing mothers, women of childbearing age, and young children. The results of these focus groups were used in the development of a final brochure, which was produced in Spanish, Hmong, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Korean.
