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3. Chemotherapeutic agents <br />4. Containers used for discarded chemotherapeutic products. <br />Other Hazardous Waste: <br />1. Materials that exhibit flammability, ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, EP toxicity (e.g. <br />Formalin, lab reagents, paints, solvents) <br />Radionuclear Waste: <br />1. Long-lived isotopes <br />2. Short-lived isotopes <br />3. KR81 <br />4. Needles, Syringes and other equipment contaminated by radioactive waste. <br />REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE FOR AUTOCLAVE TREATMENT <br />1. All liquid waste, human blood and blood products and disposable materials saturated and/or <br />dripping with human blood or items that were saturated or dripping with human blood that are <br />now caked with dried human blood, including serum, plasma, other blood components and their <br />containers. <br />2. Waste from surgical procedures, which consist of items contaminated with blood, body fluids, <br />or body substances. <br />3. Biological waste from suction canisters, hemovac drainage and pluerovac drainage emanating <br />from patients and which cannot be discarded directly into a sanitary sewer <br />4. Biological waste and discarded material contaminated with blood, excretions, exudates or <br />secretions from humans or animals infected with the following highly communicable diseases: <br />Ebola, Lassa, Marburg and smallpox viruses and other CDC class 4 diseases <br />5. Laboratory waste which has come into contact with infectious agents, blood or blood products. <br />Cultures and stocks, infectious agents, associated biological, culture dishes and devices used to <br />transfer, inoculate and mix cultures. <br />6. Dialysis waste, including tubing and other blood contaminated items. <br />7. Discarded serums and vaccines that have not been returned to the manufacturer or point of <br />origin. <br />8. IV bags. <br />9. Animal Bedding. <br />PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE <br />Methods of segregation and containment <br />1. Pharmacy Services shall store all outdated, contaminated, mislabeled or otherwise non -usable <br />medications in authorized medication trash bins or containers in designated areas within the <br />pharmacy. The medication trash bins or containers shall be clearly identified and/or labeled. <br />