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C <br />CVS Omnicare RMW Management Plan <br />State Specific Medical Waste Definitions <br />Florida <br />Biomedical waste — Any solid or liquid waste which may present a threat of infection to humans, <br />including non -liquid tissue, body parts, blood, blood products, and body fluids from humans and <br />other primates; laboratory and veterinary wastes which contain human disease -causing agents; and <br />discarded sharps. The following are also included: <br />(a) Used, absorbent materials saturated with blood, blood products, body fluids, or excretions or <br />secretions contaminated with visible blood; and absorbent materials saturated with blood or blood <br />products that have dried. <br />(b) Non-absorbent, disposable devices that have been contaminated with blood, body fluids or, <br />secretions or excretions visibly contaminated with blood, but have not been treated by an approved <br />method. <br />Sharps — Objects capable of puncturing, lacerating, or otherwise penetrating the skin. <br />California <br />Medical Waste - Waste that is generated or produced as a result of 1) Diagnosis, treatment, or <br />immunization of human beings or animals; 2) Research pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment, or <br />immunization of human beings or animals; 3) the production or testing of biologicals; 4) the <br />collection of household -generated sharps wastes; 5) trauma scene wastes. <br />Washington <br />Biomedical waste - includes animal waste, infectious wastes, cultures and stocks, blood and blood <br />products, pathological waste, and sharps waste (defined as all sharps that have been removed from <br />the original sterile packaging). <br />Michigan <br />Infectious aizent - means a pathogen that is sufficiently virulent so that if a susceptible host is <br />exposed to the pathogen in an adequate concentration and through a portal of entry, the result could <br />be transmission of disease to a human. <br />