Florida Biomedical Waste Program
It could include human tissues, items contaminated with blood, body fluids like dressings, plaster casts, cotton swabs, beddings contaminated with blood or body fluid, blood bags, needles, syringes or any other contaminated sharp object. Florida Biomedical Waste Program Bio-medical waste is generated during the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals or in research activities pertaining thereto or in the production or testing of biologicals. It include wastes like human anatomical waste, animal waste, microbiology & biotechnology waste, waste sharps, discarded medicines& cytotoxic drugs, soiled waste, solid waste, liquid waste, incineration ash, chemical wastes. These wastes are potentially hazardous because of the potentially infectious in nature as it may pose a serious threat to human health, if its management is indiscriminate and unscientific. Earlier, bio-medical waste management was not an integral part of the health care programme. The negligence on the part of health care waste management programme, in the past, was reflected in various articles in the newspapers and public litigations in various Courts including in the Hon’ble Supreme Court and this is also evident from the sporadic epidemics experienced in different parts of the Country. thermal treatment of hazardous, chemical, toxic and (bio)medical waste streams.
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