New York Consolidated Laws, Public Health Law - PBH § 2475. Special policies with respect to dioxin exposure

(a) establish, promote and maintain a public information program on dioxin.  Such program shall include, but may not be limited to, an effort to contact Vietnam era veterans and employees of the public and private sectors within the state who were exposed to an herbicide containing dioxin;

(b) initiate an epidemiological study of the health effects of exposure to herbicides containing dioxin;

(c) maintain a central data bank within the department for information collected on the health effects of exposure to dioxin and for the cataloguing of existing scientific and medical literature on the health effects of this exposure;  and

(d) initiate education for health professionals to assist them in understanding the potential risks and state-of-the-art knowledge with regard to detection, diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic symptoms associated with dioxin exposure.