Health Hazards Posed in the Generation, Handling, and Disposal of Infectious Wastes: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulation and Business Opportunities of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, Washington, DC, August 9, 1988, Volume 4

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Page 175 - ... (A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness ; or (B) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed.
Page 374 - ... hundred dollars for said violation and an additional penalty of not to exceed one hundred dollars for each day during which such violation continues...
Page 390 - Moreover, there is no epidemiologic evidence that hospital waste has caused disease in the community as a result of improper disposal. Therefore, identifying wastes for which special precautions are indicated is largely a matter of judgment about the relative risk of disease transmission. The most practical approach to the management of infective waste is to identify those wastes with the potential for causing infection during handling...
Page 41 - We will make a copy of your prepared remarks a part of the record in their entirety, and if you could summarize your principal concerns, that would be very helpful.
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Page 6 - Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Page 190 - Sharps, including needles, laboratory glass wastes, and glass pipets; 4. Surgical, autopsy, and obstetrical wastes which have had contact with patient blood or body fluids; 5. Wastes which have had contact with communicable disease isolation wastes; 6. Human and animal tissue containing pathogens with sufficient virulence and quantity so that exposure to the waste by a susceptible human host could result in an infectious disease; and Ash 7.
Page 168 - ... product's identity. In concert with the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, EPA should be directed to explore existing authority under TSCA §6, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the Consumer Product Safety Act to support such a product marking program. The second tracking system should be the manifest system established under RCRA Subtitle C to track hazardous waste from the point of generation to the point of disposal.
Page 374 - Injunctions. (95) (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of, or who fails to perform any duty imposed by, this Act, or who violates any order...
Page 390 - ... (blood, tissue, sharps, cultures, and stocks of infectious agents). While hospitals, clinics and health care facilities may generate the vast majority of these wastes, medical wastes including those that are infectious are also generated by private practices, home health care, veterinary clinics, and blood banks. Thus, this problem and...

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