42 U.S.C. § 6992a — Listing of medical wastes
submitted 38 years ago by Pub. L. 89-272 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 411 words · no verdicts yet
The Administrator must list medical wastes tracked under the demonstration program. The list must cover specified infectious, pathological, blood, sharp, animal, surgical, laboratory, dialysis, equipment, biological, and other hazardous medical wastes, subject to an exclusion authority.
(a) Within 6 months after November 1, 1988, the Administrator* must issue rules listing medical-waste types tracked by the demonstration* program. Unless subsection (b) permits exclusion, the list must include at least: (1) cultures and stocks of infectious agents and related biological materials, including laboratory cultures, biological-production waste, discarded live or attenuated vaccines, and culture-transfer dishes and devices; (2) tissues, organs, and body parts removed in surgery or autopsy; (3) human blood and blood products, including serum, plasma, and other components; (4) used sharps from patient care and medical, research, or industrial laboratories, including needles, syringes, pipettes, broken glass, and scalpels; (5) animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding contaminated after animal exposure to infectious agents in research, biological production, or pharmaceutical testing; (6) surgery or autopsy waste that contacted infectious agents, including dressings, sponges, drapes, lavage tubes, drainage sets, underpads, and gloves; (7) laboratory waste that contacted infectious agents, including slides, cover slips, gloves, coats, and aprons; (8) dialysis waste that contacted patients’ blood, including contaminated disposable tubing, filters, sheets, towels, gloves, aprons, and coats; (9) discarded medical equipment and parts that contacted infectious agents; (10) biological waste and discarded material contaminated with blood, excretion, exudates, or secretion from isolated humans or animals; and (11) other material resulting from medical care by a health-care provider that the Administrator finds threatens health or the environment.
(b) The Administrator may exclude categories or items in paragraphs (6) through (10) that the Administrator finds pose no substantial present or potential health or environmental hazard when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
Not later than 6 months after November 1, 1988, the Administrator* shall promulgate regulations listing the types of medical waste to be tracked under the demonstration* program. Except as provided in subsection (b), such list shall include, but need not be limited to, each of the following types of solid waste*:
Cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated biologicals, including cultures from medical and pathological laboratories, cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories, wastes from the production of biologicals, discarded live and attenuated vaccines, and culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures.
Pathological wastes, including tissues, organs, and body parts that are removed during surgery or autopsy.
Waste human blood and products of blood, including serum, plasma, and other blood components.
Sharps that have been used in patient care or in medical, research, or industrial laboratories, including hypodermic needles, syringes, pasteur pipettes, broken glass, and scalpel blades.
Contaminated animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding of animals that were exposed to infectious agents during research, production of biologicals, or testing of pharmaceuticals.
Wastes from surgery or autopsy that were in contact with infectious agents, including soiled dressings, sponges, drapes, lavage tubes, drainage sets, underpads, and surgical gloves.
Laboratory wastes from medical, pathological, pharmaceutical, or other research, commercial, or industrial laboratories that were in contact with infectious agents, including slides and cover slips, disposable gloves, laboratory coats, and aprons.
Dialysis wastes that were in contact with the blood of patients undergoing hemodialysis, including contaminated disposable equipment and supplies such as tubing, filters, disposable sheets, towels, gloves, aprons, and laboratory coats.
Discarded medical equipment and parts that were in contact with infectious agents.
Biological waste and discarded materials contaminated with blood, excretion, excudates 1 or secretion from human beings or animals who are isolated to protect others from communicable diseases.
Such other waste material that results from the administration of medical care to a patient by a health care provider and is found by the Administrator to pose a threat to human health or the environment.
The Administrator may exclude from the list under this section any categories or items described in paragraphs (6) through (10) of subsection (a) which he determines do not pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 11002, as added Pub. L. 100–582, § 2(a), Nov. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2951.)
- 1988Enacted · Pub. L. 89-272 · 102 Stat. 2951
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