Sharps disposal: difference between revisions
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| 22 | ; Empty glass vials : A [[vial]] is not a sharp while intact. Broken glass is. Waste guidance in several jurisdictions accordingly treats pharmaceutical glass as sharps waste when it has contained a medicinal product, on the grounds that it will break in the waste stream.{{r|htm0701}} | 22 | ; Empty glass vials : A [[vial]] is not a sharp while intact. Broken glass is. Waste guidance in several jurisdictions accordingly treats pharmaceutical glass as sharps waste when it has contained a medicinal product, on the grounds that it will break in the waste stream.{{r|htm0701}} |
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| + | 24 | The classification consequence of contamination with a medicinal product is significant and often overlooked. A needle used to inject a medicine is not merely infectious waste; it is infectious waste contaminated with a pharmaceutical, and in the European classification scheme that changes the applicable waste code and therefore the permitted treatment. Codes in chapter 18 of the European List of Waste distinguish waste whose collection and disposal is subject to special requirements in order to prevent infection — 18 01 03*, an absolute hazardous entry — from other clinical waste, and separate entries exist for cytotoxic and cytostatic medicines.{{r|htm0701}} | |
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| 24 | == Hazard basis == | 26 | == Hazard basis == |
| 25 | The evidence base for sharps regulation is the epidemiology of occupational percutaneous injury, which is unusually well characterised because it has been under structured surveillance in several countries for decades. | 27 | The evidence base for sharps regulation is the epidemiology of occupational percutaneous injury, which is unusually well characterised because it has been under structured surveillance in several countries for decades. |