Focus:
• State’s capacity to diagnose infectious diseases
• Strengthening the state’s ability to deal with a foodborne outbreak, especially involving threat agents and/or capacity issues
Accomplishments:
• Increased training between food and pubic health labs
• Made state public health lab and state epidemiology more aware of clinical lab needs in normal times and during an outbreak
• Strengthening lab/epidemiology link and producing tighter procedures for recognizing potential threat agents
Members:
• Laboratory Response Forum
o Hospital lab directors
o Public health epidemiologists
o Lab supervisors
o Others with an interest in the program
• Food Lab Subcommittee
o State public health labs
o Agricultural labs
Materials:
North Carolina Flu Surveillance Program - April 2008
North Carolina LAC Presentation - April 2008
North Carolina MMWR Reports - April 2008
North Carolina Minutes - April 2008
North Carolina Laboratory Response Forum agenda – January 2008
North Carolina Laboratory Response Forum agenda – October 2007
North Carolina Laboratory Response Forum minutes – November 2006
North Carolina Food Laboratory Subcommittee minutes – August 2006