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State public health laboratory flagged arsenic in packaged juice, maintains water, shellfish and PFAS programs
Summary
During the budget briefing, DHHS officials detailed the public health laboratory's testing workload — thousands of water and food samples, wastewater surveillance, PFAS and radon testing — and described a 2024 lab finding that led to a 14,000‑case juice recall.
New Hampshire’s state public health laboratory performs high‑volume and varied testing that department staff say plays a recurring role in consumer safety, disease surveillance and emergency response.
The division told the Finance Division that in 2024 the laboratory tested more than 16,000 water samples — including roughly 2,500 private well samples — and that the lab’s chemistry work identified arsenic in a boxed apple juice product that led to a recall of more than 14,000 cases distributed across 26 states. The detection, Tilley said, underscores the lab’s role in protecting…
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