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Miramar Biohazardous waste is a product of the activities of health care facilities. This type of waste can be infectious (like blood and other body fluids) and can thus work as a carrier of different diseases. As such, it is important to properly introduce medical waste management to the health care facility that generates this kind of waste.

Luckily, different US government agencies clearly recognize the necessity of good regulations when it comes to medical waste removal Miramar and have, to this date, imposed several laws concerning medical waste. If you are running a business that produces biohazardous or medical waste, you would do well to know these regulations by heart so that you can avoid the possibility of doing something illegal and endangering someone’s life as a result.

This article is meant to provide some basic information on several of the most important acts pertaining to medical waste removal.

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, or FIFR for short, says that anyone who makes biohazardous materials such as disinfectants, insecticides and pesticides must first register the materials according to the specified standards. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) separates these materials into those for “general use” and those for “restricted use”, with the general use items being available for use by everyone and restricted use chemicals only by licensed and certified applicators.

Resource Recovery Act

The Resource Recovery Act (RRA) is another brain child of EPA that helps with the medical waste management in the United States. This Act has been accepted by most states in the US for regulating safe medical waste removal. According to EPA, medical waste include solids, liquids and gases that are hazardous and produced by a health care facility. For example, chemotherapy wastes can be considered as biohazardous wastes and thus require great attention when being disposed of.

Of course, anyone producing medical waste is required to keep an eye on these regulations and make sure that they are performing their medical waste removal Miramar procedures accordingly.

Clean Air and Clean Water Acts

These two acts were introduced pretty much at the same time by the Environmental Protection Agency back in the 1997.

The Clean Air Act is a set of standards and guidelines that have a task of reducing the emissions in the atmosphere. The Act brings forward several guidelines to health care facilities and medical waste management Miramar companies using incinerators to limit the amount of infectious emissions they produce.

The Clean Water Act, on the other hand, regulates the discharge to publicly owned medical waste treatment works and regulates per-treatment standards. This Act is applicable to both old and new sources of medical waste water pollution.

Of course, these are not the only acts that you should keep track of when it comes to medical waste management Miramar.