ENVIRONMENTAL FINAL GOVERNING STANDARDS ITALY

ITALY - 8 Medical Waste Management
C8.2.8. Infectious Agent. Any organism (such as a virus or a bacterium) that is capable of
being communicated by invasion and multiplication in body tissues and capable of causing
disease or adverse health impacts in humans.
C8.2.9. Infectious Medical Waste. A sub-category of special waste that is specially
managed because it has the potential for causing disease in humans and may pose a risk to both
individuals or community health if not managed properly, and that includes the following
classes:
C8.2.9.1. Microbiology waste, including cultures and stocks of etiologic agents which,
due to their species, type, virulence, or concentration, are known to cause disease in humans.
C8.2.9.2. Pathology waste, including human tissues and organs, amputated limbs or
other body parts, fetuses, placentas, and similar tissues from surgery, delivery, or autopsy
procedures. Animal carcasses, body parts, blood, and bedding from contaminated animals are
also included.
C8.2.9.3. Human blood and blood products (including serum, plasma, and other blood
components), items contaminated with liquid or semi-liquid blood or blood products and items
saturated or dripping with blood or blood products, and items caked with blood or blood products
that are capable of releasing these materials during handling.
C8.2.9.4. Potentially infectious materials, including human body fluids such as semen,
vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, amniotic
fluid, saliva in dental procedures, any body fluid that is visibly contaminated with blood, and all
body fluids in situations where it is difficult or impossible to differentiate between body fluids.
C8.2.9.5. Sharps, including hypodermic needles, syringes, biopsy needles, and other
types of needles used to obtain tissue or fluid specimens, needles used to deliver intravenous
solutions, scalpel blades, pasteur pipettes, specimen slides, cover slips, glass petri plates, and
broken glass potentially contaminated with infectious waste.
C8.2.9.6. Infectious waste from isolation rooms, but only including those items that
were contaminated or likely to have been contaminated with infectious agents or pathogens,
including excretion exudates and discarded materials contaminated with blood.
C8.2.9.7. Waste generated from non-medical locations, which present analogous
infection risk.
C8.2.10. Medical Director. The manager in charge of operations at a medical or healthrelated
facility.
C8.2.11. Non-infectious Medical Waste. A sub-category of medical waste that includes
expired or discarded chemicals containing hazardous substances from care, diagnosis, treatment
or prevention of diseases in humans or in animals, and amalgam waste from dental care, and
cytotoxic and cytostatic medicines.
September 2012 Italy FGS 8-2
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