Medical Waste Management Florida
What is medical waste? Medical waste is defined as: potentially
infectious waste materials generated at health care facilities, such as
hospitals, clinics, physician’s offices, dental practices, blood banks, and
veterinary hospitals/clinics, as well as medical research facilities and
laboratories.Similarly, hospitals and other health care facilities generate
lots of waste which can transmit infections, particularly HIV, Hepatitis B
& C and Tetanus, to the people who handle it or come in contact with it. Medical Waste Management
Florida Bio-medical waste
means “any solid and/or liquid waste including its container and any
intermediate product, which is generated during the diagnosis, treatment or
immunization of human beings or animals or research activities pertaining
thereto or in the production or testing of biological or in health camps.
Medical waste is any kind of waste that contains infectious material (or
material that’s potentially infectious). This definition includes waste
generated by healthcare facilities like physician’s offices, hospitals, dental
practices, laboratories, medical research facilities, and veterinary clinics.
Medical waste can contain bodily fluids like blood or other contaminants. The
1988 Medical Waste Tracking Act defined it as waste generated during medical research,
testing, diagnosis, immunization, or treatment of either human beings or
animals. Some examples are culture dishes, glassware, bandages, gloves,
discarded sharps like needles or scalpels, swabs, and tissue.
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