| General | Staff | Yearly Call volume | Calls by County |
| Most Common Mississippi Exposures | Age of Exposures Victims in Mississippi | Source of Calls | Reason for Exposures |
In Mississippi:
50% of potentially toxic exposures involve pharmaceutical products. These include a combination of children getting into a family member’s medications, drug overdoses, adverse drug reactions and drug allergies.
Twenty-two percent of exposure cases involved household products, including cleaning products, drain cleaners and other household chemicals.
Pesticides and industrial chemicals each accounted for about six percent of exposures.
Bites from snakes and spiders and insect stings accounted for 3.3 percent of exposure cases.