Who is to be included in the Public Health Laboratory Professional role?
Occupations with responsibilities to plan, design and implement laboratory procedures to identify and quantify agents in the environment which may be hazardous to human health, biological agents believed to be involved in the etiology of diseases in animals or humans, such as bacteria, viruses and parasites, or other physical, chemical and biological hazards. May be involved in research and the development or production of antimicrobial agents. Includes microbiologist, chemist, toxicologist, physicist, virologist, entomologist and non-specified laboratory professionals. Laboratory staff with less than baccalaureate level education are not included.
