| 108 |
243.0 |
Index |
6.1.8 |
6.0 |
EOH |
Environmental & Occupational Health |
17.0 |
FWS |
Food & Water Security |
The sufficient availability, access, use, and protection of safe and clean food and water resources to support human well-being and health. |
M276 |
Percent of 16 tests for different organisms or toxins that the state public health laboratory provides or assures to assist with foodborne disease outbreak investigations, including Bacillus cereus, Brucella sp., Campylobacter sp., Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium perfringens, Cryptosporidium sp., Cyclospora cayetanensis, Listeria monocytogenes, norovirus, Salmonella, Shigella, Staphylococcus aureus, STEC non-O157, STEC O157, Vibrio sp., Yersinia enterocolitica. |
Being able to test for the most important agents that cause foodborne disease is an important capability of a state public health laboratory. Rapid identification of these agents in food and water samples can enhance the investigation of foodborne disease outbreaks and is important in identifying the source of the contamination. |
APHL CLSS |
Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), Comprehensive Laboratory Services Survey (CLSS) |
2012, 2014, & 2016 |
The state public health laboratory testing “provide or assure” standard is based on national consensus expert opinion and is recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and is reflected in the Healthy People 2020 goals concerning access to comprehensive public health and environmental health laboratory testing. This standard requires the state public health authority, through its laboratory, engage in the testing and reporting process – either by directly performing the tests or by assuring that alternative labs perform the tests adequately. This standard is designed to ensure that laboratory testing, interpretation, and reporting is guided by specialized public health knowledge and expertise found within the state public health agency, and that timely, effective public health responses and protective actions occur based on test results. States that provide testing through another type of laboratory, with no assurance role performed by the public health laboratory, do not meet this standard. (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846798/). |