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  • Title: [Medical waste: the problem of handling].
    Author: Osipova TV, Kolpashchikova IF, Smirenskaia LIu, Budnikova MV, Shtraĭkher AS.
    Journal: Gig Sanit; 2007; (2):15-7. PubMed ID: 17526219.
    Abstract:
    The paper provides the environmental and hygienic characteristics of medical waste, the necessity of introducing a new system of collection, storage, transportation, and removal of waste from health care facilities. In accordance with SanPiN 2.1.7.728-99 (subparagraph 8.7.9.3a), an enterprise for thermal decontamination of hazardous waste should be necessarily set up with the purpose of possible removal of classes B and C garbage to the polygons, which will secure medical waste to man and the environment.
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