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Dameron Hospital Association <br />PharmaSafetyTM Containers <br />Management of specific waste materials, e.g., pharmaceutical waste, requires specific plan elements <br />including identification, containment, handling, storage, treatment, disposal, emergency response and <br />recordkeeping. Some pharmaceutical waste is returned rather than destroyed via incineration. This plan <br />addresses the waste that is destined for incineration. <br />Regulatory Standards <br />• Federal Water Pollution Control Act <br />— a.k.a. Clean Water Act <br />— POTWs must enforce prohibited discharge standards <br />• Resource Conservation & Recovery Act — RCRA <br />— Hazardous waste management <br />• California Regional Water Quality Control Boards <br />— Permit POTWs <br />— No adverse discharge to surface/ground waters <br />• Cal EPA Department of Toxic Substances Control <br />— Non -sewer disposal of hazardous wastes <br />• Cal Health & Safety Code <br />— Medical Waste Management Act — "medical or biohazardous" waste <br />• Sharps waste <br />• Trace chemotherapeutic waste <br />• Human surgery specimens or tissues <br />• Waste containing recognizable fluid blood <br />• Isolation waste <br />• Microbiologic laboratory waste <br />• Pharmaceutical waste <br />• JCAHO <br />— EC.1.3, EC.2.3, E.C.2.8, TX.3.4.2 <br />• No medications may be disposed of in the regular trash or sewered. <br />• Pharmaceutical wastes are not to be placed into red biohazardous waste bags or sharps <br />containers. <br />1 <br />