; (3) to improve national toxic exposure and opioid misuse surveillance by enhancing cooperative activities between poison control centers in the United States and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other governmental agencies; (4) to research, improve, and enhance the communications and response capability and capacity of the Nation’s network of poison control centers to facilitate increased access to the centers through the integration and modernization of the current poison control centers communications and data system, including enhancing the network’s telephony, internet, data, and social networking technologies; (5) to develop, support, and enhance technology and capabilities of nationally recognized professional organizations in the field of poison control to collect national poisoning, toxic occurrence, and related public health data; (6) to develop initiatives to foster the enhanced public health utilization of national poison data collected by such organizations; (7) to support and expand the toxicologic expertise within poison control centers; and (8) to improve the capacity of poison control centers to answer high volumes of contacts and internet communications, and to sustain and enhance the poison control center’s network capability to respond during times of national crisis or other public health emergencies. (c) Accreditation (1) In general Except as provided in subsection (d), the Secretary may award a grant to a poison control center under subsection (a) only if— (A) the center has been accredited by a nationally recognized professional organization in the field of poison control, and the Secretary has approved the organization as having in effect standards for accreditation that reasonably provide for— (i) the protection of the public health with respect to poisoning; and (ii) the maintenance of the related capabilities listed in subsection (a)