New Jersey Statutes Appendix A. Emergency and Temporary Acts § 9-75

The Commissioner of Health and Senior Services shall establish or cause to be established a program of laboratory services for the prompt and accurate detection and analysis of biological and chemical agents that may be or have been used in the commission of terroristic acts or any other technological disaster. The program shall include the capacity to detect, analyze and identify chemical agents so used during and beyond the first 24 hours of a suspected event, and to support the safe handling of potentially dangerous environmental and clinical specimens so identified.