Heavy Metal and Carbon Monoxide Surveillance

SEET conducts surveillance of arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, and carbon monoxide exposure occurring in Louisiana. Louisiana Law requires healthcare providers to report all cases of heavy metal and carbon monoxide poisoning (regardless of the level) to SEET.

• Click here to report a case.
• Click here for the Louisiana Public Health/Sanitary Code List of Reportable Conditions. (Title 51. Public Health-Sanitary Code)
• Information for Health Care Professionals: These documents contain current and accurate information about heavy metal exposure and toxicity among adults and children (the lead document focuses on adults; information on childhood lead exposure can be obtained from the Childhood Lead Program). Topics include: occupational and non-occupational exposure sources, toxicity and susceptible populations, OSHA medical monitoring guidelines and result standards (OSHA, ACGIH and CDC).
  • Arsenic Exposure and Toxicity
  • Cadmium Exposure and Toxicity
  • Lead Exposure and Toxicity
  • Mercury Exposure and Toxicity
• Click here to visit Louisiana's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

CDC/NIOSH Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) Program

SEET has been participating in the CDC/ABLES program since 2007. The ABLES program is a state-based surveillance program of laboratory-reported adult blood lead levels. The program objective is to build state capacity to initiate, expand, and improve adult blood lead surveillance programs which can accurately measure trends in adult blood lead levels and effectively intervene to prevent lead over-exposures.

For more information about CDC/ABLES Program, click here.

Factsheets

• Aim at Lead Safety: Reducing Lead Hazards While at the Shooting Range
• Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) Fact Steet
• Educating Families About the Dangers of Lead
• Generator Tips

Links

• CDC's Carbon Monoxide Poisoning website: http://www.cdc.gov/co/default.htm
• CDC's fact sheet on "Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning after an Emergency"
• EPA's fact sheet on "Preventing Carbon Monoxide Poisoning"

Reports / Publications

• Adult Blood Lead Testing Louisiana, 2007
• Annual Carbon Monoxide Surveillance Report, 2011 - 2020
• Annual Heavy Metal Surveillance Report, 2011 - 2020
• Blood Mercury Levels Louisiana, 2007
• CDC's "Carbon Monoxide Poisoning After Hurricane Katrina- ALA, LA, and MS-Sept. 2005" MMWR (Vol 54, 2005)
• Information for Health Care Professionals - Arsenic Exposure and Toxicity
• Information for Health Care Professionals - Cadmium Exposure and Toxicity
• Information for Health Care Professionals - Lead Exposure and Toxicity
• Information for Health Care Professionals - Mercury Exposure and Toxicity
• Mercury Levels in Seafood: Caught vs. Bought Louisiana, 2007
• Prevent Lead Exposure in Indoor Shooting and Firing Ranges
• Tracking Exposures Through Louisiana's Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology Surveillance (ABLES), 2012-2016
• Tracking Work-Related Fatal Injuries in Louisiana (2015 - 2016)
• Work-related Lead Exposures and U.S. 190 Old Mississippi River Bridge Renovations- Louisiana-2013-2014