Sentinel Event Notification System of Occupational Risk, Grant-Number-U60-OH-008341, Project Period: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005

摘要

Pesticide poisonings are a reportable condition in New York State (NYS), under Part 22 of the State Sanitary Code (Appendix). Reporting entities are 'physicians, clinical laboratories and health care facilities'. Reporting by clinical laboratories is upon completion of an analysis of blood cholinesterase test that is below the normal range (an effect of the so-called cholinesterase inhibiting pesticides in the organophosphate and carbamate chemical classes), or tissue analysis for pesticide residues. In practice, there are few laboratories performing, and few physicians ordering, actual tissue analysis for pesticides. This is due the high cost of such tests, and the limited diagnostic value of such tests.