[Environmental medicine consultation as a responsibility of Bavarian public health service]

Several working groups of the "Academy of Public Health in the Bavarian State Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Family, Women and Health" are asked to make suggestions for quality assurance in the fields of activity of the public health services. A first conception is now brought up for discussion by the "Working Group for Quality Assurance in Environmental Medicine". Necessarily, it is based on the actual legal status, but it is also influenced by the political discussion in Bavaria concerning a new organisation of the public health services and the possibility to denationalise functions. The conception is meant to be part of an inventory of the functions in environmental medicine. Some suggestions for quality assurance are made.