During the fall of 1997, the Division of Nosocomial and Occupational Infections, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control LCDC, Health Canada, announced a plan to develop infection prevention and control practices or guidelines for three personal services: tattooing, earbody piercing and electrolysis. The process for development of the guidelines included the selection of a geographically dispersed Working Group with representatives from industry, infection control, environmental health, public health, and LCDC. Some commonly asked questions and answers about the guidelines follow.

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