[Pharmwaste] FW: Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop Boxes (Lucy, Burke)

Tue May 11 15:07:04 EDT 2010

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From: Akin Babatola [mailto:ababatola at cityofsantacruz.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:32 PM
To: 'pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us'
Subject: RE: Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop Boxes (Lucy, Burke)

Perhaps this brief piece adds to a more complete picture of the situation in California.

1)       What state do you work in or represent?

            California

2)       Are police station drop boxes allowed or prohibited in your state?

            If they are prohibited, it is a secret, so I do not believe that they are. We did a bit of fact-finding before we initiated our City's program in 2007. It takes political leadership in the local jurisdiction to have the Sheriff/Police Department participate. Cost is often an issue for Police Departments and their officers to participate in these programs.

3)       Is there specific guidance or legal requirements associated with the drop boxes beyond obtaining DEA waivers and complying with haz waste rules/exemptions?

            There may be local ordinances within areas and cities to guide the Police and/or Sheriffs' departments, and there is the specific Federal laws on narcotics to guide them.  Otherwise, California's unit of DEA has been known to direct requesters to the Federal Office of Liaison and Policy when they request waivers.

4)       Have there been any problems with police station drop boxes in your state?

While I cannot speak to the entire state, there has not been any significant problem in my local area. Our Police Department has been wonderful.

All of my answers above and the following comments are offered to the Listserve from my experience as one of the agencies who worked closely with the author of SB966 in California before it became law.

SB966's goals are to mandate the State and local agencies to operate as described by Burke, and ultimately to provide a model for handling many of the complex issues associated with this environmental problem.

At least part of the intent of SB966 is to offer legal and somewhat standardized processes for local governments in California to collect, inventory and responsibly dispose of unwanted pharmaceuticals, however it does not seem to proscribe or otherwise limit other legal processes that are achieving the same ends in California.

These processes include the voluntary efforts of Police Departments and Pharmacists who are participating in responsible continuous collection and disposal of unwanted pharmaceuticals.

I hope this helps a little bit.

Akin Babatola

Lab/Environmental Compliance Manager WWTF

831.420.6045

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Today's Topics:

   1. RE: Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop Boxes

      (Gressitt, Stevan)

   2. Kim Stevenson/OES/ONYX is out of the office.

      (Kim.Stevenson at veoliaes.com)

   3. nanoparticles (HACKEL, RICHARD)

   4. RE: Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop Boxes (MARIA DIMEGLIO)

   5. RE: Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop Boxes (Lucy, Burke)

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Message: 1

Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:23:41 -0400

From: "Gressitt, Stevan" <Stevan.Gressitt at maine.gov>

Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop

            Boxes

To: "Kernen, Brandon" <Brandon.Kernen at des.nh.gov>,

            <pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us>

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I'd be very interested in seeing the result of this survey.Please?

Stevan Gressitt, M.D., Medical Director

Office of Adult Mental Health Services

Department of Health and Human Services

Marquardt Building, 2nd Floor

11 State House Station

32 Blossom Lane

Augusta, ME  04333-0011

Ph: (207)287-4273

Fax: (207)287-1022

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[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Kernen,

Brandon

Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:59 AM

To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us

Subject: [Pharmwaste] Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop Boxes

NH is considering clarifying state law to allow for police stations to

have drop boxes for unwanted/expired medicine.  Although some of these

exist in NH already, NH state law inadvertently does not permit these at

this time.

I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions:

1)       What state do you work in or represent?

2)       Are police station drop boxes allowed or prohibited in your

state?

3)       Is there specific guidance or legal requirements associated

with the drop boxes beyond obtaining DEA waivers and complying with haz

waste rules/exemptions?

4)       Have there been any problems with police station drop boxes in

your state?

Thank you

Brandon Kernen, PG - Supervisor, Hydrology and Conservation Program

Drinking Water and Groundwater Bureau  Phone: 603 271 0660/Fax: 603 271

0656

http://des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/water/dwgb/dwspp/index.htm

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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:01:18 -0500

From: Kim.Stevenson at veoliaes.com

Subject: [Pharmwaste] Kim Stevenson/OES/ONYX is out of the office.

To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us

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I will be out of the office starting  05/07/2010 and will not return until

05/11/2010.

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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 12:32:07 -0400

From: "HACKEL, RICHARD" <RHACKEL at idem.IN.gov>

Subject: [Pharmwaste] nanoparticles

To: "'Jackson, Jennifer'" <jacksonj at ebmud.com>,

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Developing concerns on potential impacts of nanopartilces.

See:  http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100511/News01/5110313/1011/News

          Rich Hackel, OSC

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Message: 4

Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:08:36 -0700

From: "MARIA DIMEGLIO" <MDIMEGLI at ci.alameda.ca.us>

Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop

            Boxes

To: "Brandon Kernen" <Brandon.Kernen at des.nh.gov>,

            <pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us>,  "Stevan Gressitt"

            <Stevan.Gressitt at maine.gov>

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1)       What state do you work in or represent?

           California

2)       Are police station drop boxes allowed or prohibited in your

state?

          Not sure

3)       Is there specific guidance or legal requirements associated

with the drop boxes beyond obtaining DEA waivers and complying with haz

waste rules/exemptions?

         Not sure

4)       Have there been any problems with police station drop boxes in

your state?

              Not sure

I would be interested to see the survey results.

Maria Francesca Di Meglio, M.S.

Public Works Department

City of Alameda

Phone:  (510) 749-5840

FAX:     (510) 749-5867

email: mdimegli at ci.alameda.ca.us

"If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished,

refinished, resold or recycled then it should be restricted, redesigned

or removed from production."    Pete Seeger

>>> On 5/10/2010 at 7:23 AM, <Stevan.Gressitt at maine.gov> wrote:

I*d be very interested in seeing the result of this survey.Please?

Stevan Gressitt, M.D., Medical Director

Office of Adult Mental Health Services

Department of Health and Human Services

MarquardtBuilding, 2nd Floor

11 State House Station

32 Blossom Lane

Augusta, ME  04333-0011

Ph: (207)287-4273

Fax: (207)287-1022

Cell Phone: (207) 441-0291

E-Mail : stevan.gressitt at maine.gov

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From:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us

[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of

Kernen, Brandon

Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:59 AM

To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us

Subject: [Pharmwaste] Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop Boxes

NH is considering clarifying state law to allow for police stations to

have drop boxes for unwanted/expired medicine.  Although some of these

exist in NH already, NH state law inadvertently does not permit these at

this time.

I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions:

1)       What state do you work in or represent?

2)       Are police station drop boxes allowed or prohibited in your

state?

3)       Is there specific guidance or legal requirements associated

with the drop boxes beyond obtaining DEA waivers and complying with haz

waste rules/exemptions?

4)       Have there been any problems with police station drop boxes in

your state?

Thank you

Brandon Kernen, PG - Supervisor, Hydrology and Conservation Program

Drinking Water and Groundwater Bureau  Phone: 603 271 0660/Fax: 603 271

0656

http://des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/water/dwgb/dwspp/index.htm

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Message: 5

Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:29:48 -0700

From: "Lucy, Burke" <Burke.Lucy at CalRecycle.ca.gov>

Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop

            Boxes

To: 'MARIA DIMEGLIO' <MDIMEGLI at ci.alameda.ca.us>,

            "pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us" <pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us>

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I'm currently surveying all pharma collection sites in California to comply with our SB 966<http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0951-1000/sb_966_bill_20071012_chaptered.html> so I have a pretty good handle on all the roughly 45 law enforcement sites in the state - although I'll know more after all the results come in.

1)       What state do you work in or represent? California

2)       Are police station drop boxes allowed or prohibited in your state? SB 966 mandated that my agency create model program guidelines<http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/HomeHazWaste/Medications/ModelProgram/Criteria.pdf>, which are now the leading officially-sanctioned guidelines in California.  Those non-mandatory guidelines include language specific to law enforcement programs, and SB 966 includes this statement:

(d) Model programs deemed in compliance with this article shall be deemed in compliance with state law and regulation concerning the handling, management, and disposal of drug waste for the purposes of implementing the model program.

3)       Is there specific guidance or legal requirements associated with the drop boxes beyond obtaining DEA waivers and complying with haz waste rules/exemptions?

You're welcome to look through our 15-page guidelines<http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/HomeHazWaste/Medications/ModelProgram/Criteria.pdf> since much of it touches on law enforcement and controlled substances issues.  However, these two provisions stand out:

For controlled substances, the signed inventory must accompany the pharmaceutical waste and must stay with law enforcement in the evidence storage locker and through the point of destruction. Before the home-generated pharmaceutical waste is destroyed, the contents must be checked against the inventory to ensure that there has been no diversion. This is a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency law.

Events:

c. Law Enforcement - Law enforcement may participate in a collection event to provide security for event personnel. This is optional and at the discretion of collection organizers. A law enforcement officer is only required to attend and participate in a collection event only if controlled substances are to be accepted at the event. Per U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) law, only a law enforcement officer may accept controlled substances from the consumer. If controlled substances will be accepted, the operator of the event shall ask the law enforcement agency that is providing the officer if the agency has any specific requirements that the event must adhere to. For example, the law enforcement agency may specify the type of packaging that the drugs must be contained in to be accepted into their evidence locker, or if the containers the collection event will provide, are adequate for the law enforcement agency purposes. For controlled substances only, law enforcement must be on site at all times and be able to see the collection and movement of the home-generated pharmaceutical wastes from the public to the collection location. Law enforcement must be able to see the transfer of home-generated pharmaceutical wastes from vehicles to the collection containers. The operator should coordinate with law enforcement to determine the appropriate position for law enforcement to be stationed.

4)       Have there been any problems with police station drop boxes in your state?

One program has their drop-box under surveillance in the parking lot about 50 feet from the entrance to their law enforcement facility.  They said they had some trouble with what they were assuming were small businesses dropping off a lot of pharmaceutical waste and/or sharps but that may have worked itself out by now.  They also told me if they had to do it over again, they wouldn't recommend putting the bin in the parking lot if for no other reason because of the inconvenience of emptying the box that's 50 feet away.

There's another program that has secure collection bins in pharmacies (and at law enforcement locations) but only allows law enforcement to collect the waste including controlled substances.  The DEA told them they didn't like that and would follow up with an official letter saying that, but it's been about 9 months now and they still haven't received that letter.

You're welcome to contact me directly if you'd like contacts or more details.

Burke

Mr. Burke Lucy

Integrated Waste Management Specialist

Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle)

(formerly California Integrated Waste Management Board)

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From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of MARIA DIMEGLIO

Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 10:09 AM

To: Brandon Kernen; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us; Stevan Gressitt

Subject: RE: [Pharmwaste] Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop Boxes

1)       What state do you work in or represent?

           California

2)       Are police station drop boxes allowed or prohibited in your state?

          Not sure

3)       Is there specific guidance or legal requirements associated with the drop boxes beyond obtaining DEA waivers and complying with haz waste rules/exemptions?

         Not sure

4)       Have there been any problems with police station drop boxes in your state?

              Not sure

I would be interested to see the survey results.

Maria Francesca Di Meglio, M.S.

Public Works Department

City of Alameda

Phone:  (510) 749-5840

FAX:     (510) 749-5867

email: mdimegli at ci.alameda.ca.us<mailto:mdimegli at ci.alameda.ca.us>

"If it can't be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold or recycled then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production."    Pete Seeger

>>> On 5/10/2010 at 7:23 AM, <Stevan.Gressitt at maine.gov> wrote:

I'd be very interested in seeing the result of this survey.Please?

Stevan Gressitt, M.D., Medical Director

Office of Adult Mental Health Services

Department of Health and Human Services

Marquardt Building, 2nd Floor

11 State House Station

32 Blossom Lane

Augusta, ME  04333-0011

Ph: (207)287-4273

Fax: (207)287-1022

Cell Phone: (207) 441-0291

E-Mail : stevan.gressitt at maine.gov<mailto:stevan.gressitt at maine.gov>

http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mh/

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________________________________

From: pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Kernen, Brandon

Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:59 AM

To: pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us

Subject: [Pharmwaste] Unwanted Medicine - Police Station Drop Boxes

NH is considering clarifying state law to allow for police stations to have drop boxes for unwanted/expired medicine.  Although some of these exist in NH already, NH state law inadvertently does not permit these at this time.

I would appreciate if you could answer the following questions:

1)       What state do you work in or represent?

2)       Are police station drop boxes allowed or prohibited in your state?

3)       Is there specific guidance or legal requirements associated with the drop boxes beyond obtaining DEA waivers and complying with haz waste rules/exemptions?

4)       Have there been any problems with police station drop boxes in your state?

Thank you

Brandon Kernen, PG - Supervisor, Hydrology and Conservation Program

Drinking Water and Groundwater Bureau  Phone: 603 271 0660/Fax: 603 271 0656

http://des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/water/dwgb/dwspp/index.htm

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