| Foreword | Regional Public Health Institutes | Hajime Oda | Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health |  |
Feature Articles: Activities and Recent Trends of the Regional Public Health Institutes
- Working on Preventive Measures against a Health Crisis and on the Response to the Occurrence of the Crisis - | Current Status of Health Crisis Management, and Future Plans | Tsumoru Yakushiji | Dept. of Environmental Health, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health |  |
| Preventive Measures against Infectious Diseases | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Sakai City Institute of Public Health |  |
| Security and Food Safety in the Microbial Area | Ken-ichi Hayashi | Shiga Prefectural Institute of Public Health |  |
| Securement of Food Safety in the Physics and Chemistry | Toshitsugu Tanaka | Kobe Institute of Health |  |
| Assurance of Safety in Pharmaceutical Products | Takao Mitsuhashi | Health Science Division, Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science |  |
| Security of Water Safety | Isao Watanabe | Environment and Water Division, Dept. of Environmental Health, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health |  |
| Reviews | Circadian Rhythm and Food | Shigenobu Shibata | Department of Pharmacology, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University |  |
| Food Additive Risk Communication | Motohiro Nishijima | Department of Food and Health Sciences, Jissen Women's University |  |
| ArtTaste | Shikohin and Its Marketability
- Price of Mineral-water and the Value of 'Pleasure' in Contemporary Japan | Masatoshi Takada | School of Human Environmental Science, Mukogawa Women's University |  |