131:1 Purposes. – The department of health and human services may establish, equip, and operate a laboratory or laboratories with such expert assistants and such facilities as are necessary for routine examinations and analyses and for original investigations and research in matters affecting public health. Source. 1901, 23:1. PL 127:1. RL 149:1. 1943, 118:1, […]
131:2 Investigations. – They shall make investigations and analyses of foods and drugs offered for sale in our markets with a view of discovering adulterated, misbranded and unhealthful or unsafe products and shall make investigations concerning food sanitation, the disposal of sewage and similar matters of sanitation and shall enforce the laws relative to […]
131:3 Testing of Water Supplies. – They shall make periodic inspections and analyses of the public water supplies of the state and any special investigations thereof that may be called for; also, when requested or as may be deemed by them necessary or expedient in the interests of the public health, make inspections or […]
131:3-a Fee Required. – Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 131:4, the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall collect a fee for analyses made pursuant to RSA 131:3 on the following schedule: I. Fees for analyses required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act or offered as a service shall be […]
131:4 Service; Reimbursements; Rulemaking. – The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to a list of laboratory services to be provided under this chapter and a schedule of fees for such services. The fees may be waived by the commissioner when the commissioner […]
131:5 Contracts for Outside Services. – They may enter into contracts with laboratories in localities accessible to the various portions of the state for the prompt examination of specimens received from local health officers or physicians and for an immediate report on such examinations, at the expense of the state, provided that all laboratories […]
131:5-a Rulemaking. – The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to: I. Standards of efficiency for laboratories under RSA 131:5. II. The educational and technical qualifications of the commissioner, bacteriologist, or pathologist in charge of examinations under RSA 131:5. III. [Repealed.] Source. 1985, […]
131:6 Bulletin. – They may publish in a bulletin the results of the analytical work done in said laboratory, naming fraudulent and adulterated articles of food found on sale in this state, together with such other information relating to sanitary matters as they may deem advisable. Source. 1901, 23:4. PL 127:7. RL 149:7. 1943, […]
