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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning safety.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 3.360 as follows:
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| 6 | | (415 ILCS 5/3.360) (was 415 ILCS 5/3.84)
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| 7 | | Sec. 3.360. Potentially infectious medical waste.
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| 8 | | (a) "Potentially infectious medical waste" means
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| 9 | | following types of waste generated in connection with the |
| 10 | | diagnosis,
treatment (i.e., provision of medical services), or |
| 11 | | immunization of
human beings or animals; research pertaining to |
| 12 | | the provision of medical
services; or the production or testing |
| 13 | | of biologicals:
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| 14 | | (1) Cultures and stocks.
This waste shall include but |
| 15 | | not be limited to cultures and stocks of
agents infectious |
| 16 | | to humans, and associated biologicals; cultures from
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| 17 | | medical or pathological laboratories; cultures and stocks |
| 18 | | of infectious
agents from research and industrial |
| 19 | | laboratories; wastes from the
production of biologicals; |
| 20 | | discarded live or attenuated vaccines; or
culture dishes |
| 21 | | and devices used to transfer, inoculate, or mix cultures.
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| 22 | | (2) Human pathological wastes. This waste shall |
| 23 | | include tissue, organs,
and body parts (except teeth and |
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| 1 | | the contiguous
structures of bone and gum); body fluids |
| 2 | | that are removed during surgery,
autopsy, or other medical |
| 3 | | procedures; or specimens of body fluids and their
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| 4 | | containers.
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| 5 | | (3) Human blood and blood products. This waste shall |
| 6 | | include discarded
human blood, blood components (e.g., |
| 7 | | serum and plasma), or saturated material
containing free |
| 8 | | flowing blood or blood components.
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| 9 | | (4) Used sharps. This waste shall include but not be |
| 10 | | limited to
discarded sharps used in animal or human patient |
| 11 | | care, medical
research, or clinical or pharmaceutical |
| 12 | | laboratories; hypodermic,
intravenous, or other medical
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| 13 | | needles; hypodermic or intravenous syringes; Pasteur |
| 14 | | pipettes; scalpel
blades; or blood vials. This waste shall |
| 15 | | also include but not be limited
to other types of broken or |
| 16 | | unbroken glass (including slides and cover
slips) in |
| 17 | | contact with infectious agents.
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| 18 | | (5) Animal waste. Animal waste means discarded |
| 19 | | materials, including
carcasses, body parts, body fluids, |
| 20 | | blood, or bedding originating from animals
inoculated |
| 21 | | during research, production of biologicals, or |
| 22 | | pharmaceutical
testing with agents infectious to humans.
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| 23 | | (6) Isolation waste. This waste shall include |
| 24 | | discarded materials
contaminated with blood, excretions, |
| 25 | | exudates, and secretions from humans
that are isolated to |
| 26 | | protect others from highly communicable diseases.
"Highly |
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| 1 | | communicable diseases" means those diseases identified by |
| 2 | | the Board
in rules adopted under subsection (e) of Section |
| 3 | | 56.2 of this Act.
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| 4 | | (7) Unused sharps. This waste shall include but not be |
| 5 | | limited to the
following unused, discarded sharps: |
| 6 | | hypodermic, intravenous, or
other needles; hypodermic or |
| 7 | | intravenous syringes; or scalpel blades.
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| 8 | | (b) Potentially infectious medical waste does not include:
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| 9 | | (1) waste generated as general household waste;
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| 10 | | (2) waste (except for sharps) for which the infectious |
| 11 | | potential has
been eliminated by treatment; or
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| 12 | | (3) sharps that meet both of the following conditions:
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| 13 | | (A) the infectious potential has been eliminated |
| 14 | | from the sharps by
treatment; and
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| 15 | | (B) the sharps are packaged in accordance with |
| 16 | | Board regulations the sharps are rendered |
| 17 | | unrecognizable by treatment.
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| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)
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