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| 2 | | name = Sharps disposal | 2 | | name = Sharps disposal |
| + | 3 | | image = syringe.svg | |
| + | 4 | | caption = A used needle is a sharp from the moment of withdrawal. Container standards address puncture resistance, aperture geometry and irreversible closure. | |
| 3 | | Waste class = Infectious sharps waste | 5 | | Waste class = Infectious sharps waste |
| 4 | | United Nations transport code = UN 3291 | 6 | | United Nations transport code = UN 3291 |
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| 31 | 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}} | 33 | 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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| + | 35 | Sharps generated outside healthcare — by self-administration at home, by people who inject drugs, by veterinary use — fall outside occupational frameworks entirely and are addressed, where they are addressed at all, through municipal waste law and voluntary schemes. This is the principal reason authoritative guidance for a domestic user is harder to locate than the equivalent guidance for a hospital.{{r|fda_sharps}} | |
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| 33 | == Hazard basis == | 37 | == Hazard basis == |