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Page 1 of 2 <br />Benjamin Escotto [EH] <br />From: <br />Dennis Gorton [SJGH] <br />Sent: <br />Monday, June 06, 20114:18 PM <br />To: <br />Benjamin Escotto [EH] <br />Cc: Richard Aldred [SJGH]; Carla Bomben [SJGH]; Susan Ramirez [SJGH] <br />Subject: FW: San Joaquin General Hospital Environmental Health Inspection <br />Hi Mr. Escotto, <br />am passing along some information I received from Stericycle regarding the labeling of biohazardous containers. <br />Please review and let me know if we need to discuss this. Thanks. <br />From: Storie, Michael [mailto:MStorie@STERICYCLE.co] <br />Sent: Monday, June 06, 20119:25 AM <br />To: Dennis Gorton [SJGH] <br />Cc: Wolf, Josh <br />Subject: RE: San Joaquin General Hospital Environmental Health Inspection <br />Hi Dennis, <br />I just wanted to follow up from our phone conversation today. <br />Regarding the Path, and Chemo labeling; I am sorry that this happened. We have put measures in place that <br />should prevent this from happening again. Our plant people are going to check when loading a drivers truck to <br />make sure that all containers are labeled correctly. Our Drivers are going to check when leaving containers at <br />your site that they are labeled correctly. And we are going to leave some labels at your site on the next trip to <br />make sure that there is a backup in case something falls through the first two checks. By implementing these <br />three thing we should not have these problems again. <br />As far as the Pharmaceutical Waste goes please see the explanation below from the State of California. <br />Labeling of Sharps Waste <br />There are two types of medical waste: biohazardous and sharps waste. See HSC 117690 (a) (2). Sharps <br />waste doesn't have the labeling requirements that biohazardous waste does (HSC 118280 (b)). Labeling <br />for sharps waste is found in HSC 118285 (d) and there is no lateral requirement. <br />Alison Dabney, Chief <br />Medical Waste Management Program <br />All of our reusable containers are considered sharps containers. So they follow under the Sharps waste rules. <br />Your inspector cited California Medical Waste Management Act regulations so we should be good however if <br />there are some other regulations that the county has we are not aware of them. If he can provide you with <br />those we can take a look at them and see what we can do. <br />Again, Sorry that this happened. If I can do anything else to help or if you have any questions please feel free to <br />give me a call. <br />6/7/2011 <br />