36-606. Pesticide illness; medical education;
reports
A. The director of the department of health services shall develop and implement,
in cooperation with rural health clinics, county health departments, state and local
medical associations, poison control centers and other appropriate health care
professionals, a system for reporting and preventing pesticide provoked illnesses. This
program shall include:
1. Medical education programs to alert health care professionals to the symptoms,
diagnosis, treatment and reporting of pesticide provoked illnesses.
2. A statewide reporting network, which shall:
(a) Require health care professionals and poison control centers to file incident
reports of an illness that they reasonably believe, based on professional judgment, to be
caused by or related to documented exposure to a pesticide.
(b) Catalogue and retrieve data regarding pesticide poisoning for use in worker and
public health education programs to prevent pesticide poisoning.
B. The health care professional or poison control center required to file an
incident report required pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 2, subdivision (a) shall
specifically indicate in the incident report the reason for believing that the illness is
caused by or related to documented exposure to a pesticide and shall specify if the
illness is caused by the documented exposure or is related to the documented
exposure. All incident reports shall be filed with the director. The director shall
provide to the Arizona department of agriculture all records, reports and information of
all illnesses resulting from documented exposure to agriculture pesticides and shall
provide to the office of pest management all records, reports and information of all
illnesses resulting from documented exposure to structural pesticides.
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