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In school, there is a school pharmacist, and he or she conducts an inspection of environmental sanitation and pharmaceutical sanitation (education for preventing abuse of drugs) at the request of principal.
As for school environment sanitation, an effort has been made to control the facility of the building in order that children can attend the classes under safe and comfortable study environment, and advice is made to the principal that a measure is taken after the fact if an improvement is required. In addition, they can use result of the inspection as a live material for environmental education, and able to expand it from the environmental sanitation of school to home and local area. We also wish that it is realized. It is said that education is the largest vaccine and it is contaminated at global level, and thereby we expect that they are able to develop an attitude where spirit of “noticing” is produced and it is not contaminated. We list a part of professional ability of school pharmacist by introducing examples the author carried out.

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As a measure for contamination of air in the room, “Guideline for environmental hygiene in school” was revised in whole in 2004.
In addition to it, items for sanitation of drinking water, drainage, swimming pool, and harmful insect were revised as they were indicated in many respects in society.
As for sick house syndrome which is a problem in society, it apples to construction of school where it has a significant influence causing influence to health of students. The material of construction used in classrooms, lowering of air quality and remarkable shortage of ventilation amount were also indicated as problems. As a cause of contamination in school and substance causing foul smell, there is not only a new material of construction used for new construction as well as addition and renovation of the building but also chemical substance derived from paint. Other than that, there are substances used in school daily such as felt-tipped pen, wax, and detergent, which are used as study material. Here we are going to discuss explanation of standard such as addition of standard for density of volatile organic compound (VOC) including formaldehyde and NO_2, importance of ventilation in the classroom, and asbestos.

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It was reported in newspaper in 1996 that children did not want to use toilet in school. The fact that the toilet was old as well as cleaning and maintenance were not sufficient worsen deterioration of the toilet environment. Educational movement for improvement has been conducted by establishing “the toilet study team in school” by companies related to toilet and inspection of an actual situation of the toilet in school. However, the daily cleaning by children is limited, and we need special cleaning by regular cleaning and specialist.
For renovation of the toilet, selection of the product, which is excellent in cleaning and ecology, as well as planned maintenance are important.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the indoor air quality and odor in elementary schools. The concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and formaldehyde, the air change rate, the air temperature and the relative humidity were measured in three elementary schools in Kagoshima city. The frequency of sensing annoying odor, and the odor emission source in the classroom were investigated in the questionnaire survey for the school pupils. The average air change rate measured in summer experiment was high at 18h^-1 in classrooms, where the windows and doors were opened. In winter experiment, it was low at 1h^-1 because the windows and doors were closed. The VOCs concentrations in the classroom, where the renovation had just completed before this study, were relatively high in summer experiment. The frequency of sensing annoying odor was higher in the above classroom. However the pupils voted body odor more than paint odor as the odor emission souce.

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