Title: NEW NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS POISON PUBLICATION

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Section/SPIG: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

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http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10971.html

Take a moment to browse online and review the new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, "Forging a poison prevention and control system." The report claims that poisoning is a much larger public health problem than has generally been recognized. The authors describe the specific activities and resources needed to create a national system for comprehensive poison prevention and control. The report calls on Congress to amend the current Poison Control Center Enhancement and Awareness Act of 2004 to provide sufficient funding for the proposed new national system. ICEHS Archivist Les Fisher reports that “one of the recommendations of the report is to establish and fund poison control coordinators in heath departments” …. “that was done some 60 years ago to help handle center reported stats !”

- Les Fisher