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§ 501. State health laboratory; other laboratories; tests
The board shall have supervision and management of the Vermont state health laboratory. The board may provide for approval and registration of laboratories performing examinations or tests of a public health nature. Any laboratory which examines material for any living agent or evidence of living agent of a reportable disease to man shall send the results of such tests, if positive, forthwith to the state laboratory of hygiene. The laboratory shall make chemical and bacteriological examination of water supplies, milk and food products and examinations for the detection and control of communicable diseases; and shall carry on such work in relation to the health of the residents of the state as the board shall direct. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961.)
