State and county laws regulated bio-hazardous medical waste Boyton Beach very closely. In the Medical Waste Management Act this type of waste is defined as biohazardous and sharps waste, as well as waste produced as the result of the following procedures in health care industry:
• Treatment, diagnosis and immunization of humans and/or animals
• Research prior to diagnosis, treatment and immunization of humans and/or animals
• Testing and production of biologicals
• Amassed home-generated sharps waste
• Removal of trauma scene waste
We define bio-hazardous waste as:
1. Waste, which at the point of disposal, transport to the bio-hazardous medical waste management facility or thereafter, contains noticeable blood or blood products (in liquid form), equipment or containers containing blood or blood products in liquid form.
2. Lab waste, which includes: human or animal cultures from medical laboratories, stocks and cultures of infectious agents gathered via research laboratories, waste from the production of bacteria and other microorganisms, used discarded vaccines (live and attenuated) and more.
3. Animal parts, body organs, tissue, fluids and carcases for which the veterinarian is suspecting to be contaminated with pathogens that can also be contagious to humans.
4. Human body parts, organs and tissue removed during surgery procedures or autopsy, for which the surgeon believes they are contaminated with agents infectious to human beings.
5. Waste that contains materials discarded with secretion or excretion from humans or animals who are already isolated on account of highly transmittable disease.
Sharps Waste
Sharps are a type of medical waste that deserves close attention when it comes to bio-hazardous medical waste Boyton Beach. Such disposables are defined as devices with rigid and keen edges or protuberances capable of lacerating or piercing the human or animal skin. Sharps waste includes, but it is not limited to the following medical instruments and other items:
1. Needles, needles with syringes attached to them, needles with tubing attached, acupuncture needles, root canal files, razor blades, scissors, scalpels
2. Broken glass items. For example, vials containing blood are considered as bio-hazardous waste.
3. Any other item capable of piercing or cutting the skin that has been contaminated with infected blood.
What Does Medical Waste NOT Include?
It is also very good to know what is NOT included in the medical waste category and should NOT be disposed via any of the known bio-hazardous medical waste management Boyton Beach methods. Those are the following items:
1. Waste produced in bio-technology or food industry that doesn’t contain blood in liquid form
2. Urine, feces and other bodily fluids, in both liquid and semi-liquid form unless they contain fluid blood.
3. Items such as paper towels and anything else that is commonly found and used in hospitals, but does not contain fluid blood.
4. Any waste generated and produced in animal livestock management, a farm or a ranch.
