Separating Medical and Hazardous Wastes

Medical facilities and pharmaceutical companies bear the enormous task of segregating and disposing of the wastes that accumulate during the development of medicines and treatment of patients. These wastes pose very different hazards and impacts on the environment and human beings. 

Blood and body fluids include bulk laboratory specimens of blood tissue, semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, and amniotic fluid. Precautions do not apply to feces, nasal secretions, sputum, sweat, tears, urine, or vomit unless 

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