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Board passes first reading on ordinance to regulate pop-up specimen collection sites; duplicate file sent back to committee
Summary
Supervisors approved the ordinance’s first reading to set hygiene, privacy and penalty standards for pop-up specimen-collection sites and duplicated the file with DPH-requested amendments for additional public comment in committee.
The Board of Supervisors passed on first reading an ordinance to require standards for sites that collect medical specimens for clinical laboratories and to create administrative penalties for violations. The ordinance, advanced by Supervisor Preston, aims to address pop-up specimen-collection operations that city officials said raised privacy and public-health concerns.
Why it matters: Council offices said pop-up testing tents and similar sites in neighborhoods including the Tenderloin had been operating without clear standards after the city’s COVID-era health order expired. Complaints included…
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