Fish Consumption Advisories: One Agency's Focus on Families.

The New York State Attorney General's Environmental Protection Bureau undertook an effort to publicize fish consumption advisories regarding fish found in the waters around New York City. With informational brochures in English, Spanish, Chinese, Creole, and Russian, we reached out to minority and ethnic women who select and prepare family meals. To enhance the utility of the brochures, we illustrated the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) consumption advisories with pictures of the fish and maps of relevant locations. Follow-up questionnaires indicated that the brochures were generally well understood and readers were likely to change their meal selection and preparation practices as a result of reading the brochures. We accomplished this outreach at minimal expense and with no special funding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]