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2001 SESSION

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SJ 379 Blood-lead testing or low-risk determinations for children.

Introduced by: Benjamin J. Lambert III | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Blood-lead testing or low-risk determinations for Virginia's children. Requests the Boards of Health and Medicine to cooperate in publicizing the statutory requirements for blood-lead testing or low-risk determinations for Virginia's children. This resolution notes that lead is a poison to which children are particularly susceptible and the effects of lead poisoning are not reversible and may include reduced intelligence and neurological deficits such as loss of hearing and the sense of balance/coordination. The resolution also states that the law to require the blood-lead testing or low-risk determinations for children was an initiative of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Lead Poisoning Prevention. To implement this provision, the Board of Health is requested to submit an article concerning the dangers of lead poisoning to children, the CDC's goal of eliminating childhood lead poisoning by 2010, the origin of the protocol statute, the requirements of the protocol law, the development of the protocol, and the contents of the protocol to the Board of Medicine; the Board of Medicine is requested to include the Board of Health's article and protocol regulations in one of its issues of "Board Briefs" or any other regularly published Board of Medicine document. The two boards are further requested to initiate other reasonable efforts within the scope of their present duties and activities to publicize the new lead-testing requirements to practitioners who treat pediatric patients. This resolution is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee to Study Lead Poisoning Prevention.


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