§6992h — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry must prepare for Congress, within 24 months after November 1, 1988, a report on the health effects of medical waste. The report must explain how separating, handling, storing, treating, or throwing away medical waste can cause infection or injury. It must estimate how many people are hurt or infected each year by sharps and how serious those cases are, estimate how many people are infected each year by other waste-related actions and how serious those infections are, and, for diseases that might spread through medical waste — including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and hepatitis B — estimate what percentage of the country’s cases may be linked to medical waste.

Title 42, §6992h

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Within 24 months after November 1, 1988, the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry shall prepare for Congress a report on the health effects of medical waste, including each of the following—

(1)A description of the potential for infection or injury from the segregation, handling, storage, treatment, or disposal of medical wastes.

(2)An estimate of the number of people injured or infected annually by sharps, and the nature and seriousness of those injuries or infections.

(3)An estimate of the number of people infected annually by other means related to waste segregation, handling, storage, treatment, or disposal, and the nature and seriousness of those infections.

(4)For diseases possibly spread by medical waste, including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and hepatitis B, an estimate of what percentage of the total number of cases nationally may be traceable to medical wastes.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 11008 of Pub. L. 89–272 was classified to section 6992g of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–362, § 501(h)(1)(A).

§6992h Health impacts report

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Title 42, §6992h

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