EPA updates hazardous waste pharmaceuticals standards

Disposing of pharmaceuticals regulated as hazardous waste posed a problem for facilities

The Environmental Protection Agency is updating standards governing the management and disposal of healthcare-generated hazardous waste pharmaceuticals, according an article on the FacilityCare website.

Disposing of pharmaceuticals regulated as hazardous waste posed a problem for facilities, the article said.

A healthcare facility can have thousands of items in its formulary, making it difficult to know which ones are hazardous wastes, the EPA said.

According to EPA, the new effort is a continuation of a December 2008 proposal.

Read the article.

March 13, 2015

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