Poison Control required consult in your ED?

One of my pet peeves is the statement "oh you are required to do this or that" due to ED or hospital protocol, etc. But then you ask to see the policy and it ends up being bull**** that has just been passed down from generation to generation despite it not making sense. The ED Nurse Manager just told me that when things like mushroom ingestion, envenomation from snakes or other animals, etc comes in that we are required to call poison control which I have always known not to be true and... Poison Control required consult in your ED?
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