{"data":{"id":"us-fl/fla.-stat.-593.24","jurisdiction":"us-fl","citation":"Fla. Stat. § 593.24","heading":"Technical assistance by Department of Health; health advisory committee.","body":"The Department of Health shall provide technical assistance to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services when the latter department is carrying out an emergency response to a plant pest infestation which involves the aerial application of a pesticide to an urbanized area and shall establish a health advisory committee. The committee shall consist of seven members and shall include the State Health Officer, the local health officer, the poison information center director, a toxicologist from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, a person representing a state teaching hospital, a physician practicing in the area, and an epidemiologist from the Department of Health. The duties of the health advisory committee are to serve as a resource, under the supervision of the Department of Health, to the Department of Health and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in carrying out their duties under this act; duties of the health advisory committee include, but are not limited to, review of the aggregate information collected from physician and hotline calls.\nHistory.—s. 5, ch. 98-108.","path":["CHAPTER 593 PEST ERADICATION IN URBANIZED AREAS"],"source_url":"https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute\u0026URL=0500-0599/0593/0593.html","current_through":"2026 Florida Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:10:01Z","sha256":"bee9ef06017e35a5afedb0b08a88d943068e4b17d5ba7c1268dbec1c7b501645","source_id":"us-fl","stale":false,"prev":"us-fl/fla.-stat.-593.23","next":"us-fl/fla.-stat.-593.25"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}