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| 95 | Treatment routes are incineration, steam sterilisation followed by mechanical destruction, or chemical disinfection with maceration. The choice is constrained by the contents: where a container may hold cytotoxic or cytostatic residues, high-temperature incineration is generally required, because autoclaving destroys pathogens but not pharmaceutical molecules. This is the practical reason the colour coding exists, and the reason mixing streams is treated as a compliance failure rather than a housekeeping one.{{r|htm0701}} | 95 | Treatment routes are incineration, steam sterilisation followed by mechanical destruction, or chemical disinfection with maceration. The choice is constrained by the contents: where a container may hold cytotoxic or cytostatic residues, high-temperature incineration is generally required, because autoclaving destroys pathogens but not pharmaceutical molecules. This is the practical reason the colour coding exists, and the reason mixing streams is treated as a compliance failure rather than a housekeeping one.{{r|htm0701}} |
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| + | 97 | Routes available to an individual differ markedly by jurisdiction and, within jurisdictions, by locality: | |
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| 97 | == References == | 99 | == References == |
| 98 | {{reflist}} | 100 | {{reflist}} |