2022 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics
Section 26:2-179 - Consumer's mercury alert notice, posting, distribution.

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NJ Rev Stat § 26:2-179 (2022)
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26:2-179 Consumer's mercury alert notice, posting, distribution.

1. The Department of Health, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, shall prepare a consumer's mercury alert notice for posting in all patient areas of professional medical offices that provide gynecological, obstetrical, or pediatric care and in the patient or client areas of all maternal and child health and nutrition programs. The notice shall explain the danger to women who expect to become pregnant, women who are pregnant or breast feeding their children, and young children, of eating mercury contaminated fish. The notice shall summarize the State's and the federal government's most current mercury health advisories concerning fish consumption and shall contain such other information as the department deems appropriate. The notice also shall list any telephone number that may be established for State residents to call for further information about the health advisories.

The department shall distribute the notice, at no charge, to all professional medical offices that provide gynecological, obstetrical, or pediatric care and to all publicly funded maternal and child health and nutrition programs in the State. The department shall update the notice as necessary, and shall make additional copies of the notice available to health care providers upon request.

L.2003, c.174, s.1; amended 2012, c.17, s.133.

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