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<DIV><SPAN class=324175419-13012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>does
anyone have access to NY's bill regarding this prohibition? or do we know
if NY has a specific law prohibiting drug disposal
to...?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=324175419-13012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>thanx
in advance for any leads,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=324175419-13012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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<DIV><SPAN class=324175419-13012010><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>allen
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Massoomi, Fred<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:18
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Hyun, Karen; Mannina, George J.;
pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Pharmwaste] A move in the
right direction to keep RX out of the H2O<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Health
facilities, NY settle over drug-flushing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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13, 2010 4:37 AM CST Wednesday, January 13, 2010 5:37 AM
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<P class=MsoNormal
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face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">By MARCUS
FRANKLIN<BR>Associated Press Writer <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">NEW YORK (AP) -
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a settlement Tuesday with
five health care facilities that flushed pharmaceutical waste into the New
York City watersheds.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Cuomo reached
agreements with the two hospitals and three nursing homes that disposed of
painkillers, antibiotics, antidepressants, hormones and other pharmaceuticals
through toilets and sinks and into the watersheds, his office said. The
flushes potentially put about 9 million people's drinking water at risk, Cuomo
said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The three
watersheds - the Croton, Catskill and Delaware - cover nearly 2000 square
miles and drain into reservoirs and lakes providing drinking water to New York
City's roughly 8 million residents and another 1 million in several northern
counties - nearly half the state's 19.4 million
residents.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The hospitals and
nursing homes are located within the watershed in Putnam and <st1:State
w:st="on">Delaware</st1:State> counties north of <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York
City</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Although such
facilities are allowed to flush many - but not all - drugs through toilets and
sinks, the nursing homes and hospitals nonetheless agreed to stop disposing of
all drugs in that manner to protect the watersheds, Cuomo
said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Instead, the
facilities will give the drugs to waste management facilities, he
said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The attorney
general's investigation of the facilities on the watersheds was prompted in
part by a series of stories by The Associated Press in 2008 that revealed the
drinking water of at least 51 million Americans contains minute concentrations
of a multitude of drugs, said Katherine Kennedy, Cuomo's special deputy
attorney general for environmental protection.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Water utilities,
replying to an AP questionnaire, acknowledged the presence of dozens of drugs
in their supplies. State tests of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State>'s watersheds in 2008 that also
found trace amounts of drugs also led to Cuomo's investigation, Kennedy
said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Cuomo called the
practice "an emerging threat" to <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
York</st1:place></st1:State>'s drinking water supply and said the federal
Environmental Protection Agency has identified pharmaceuticals as
"contaminants of emerging concern."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The attorney
general said waste pharmaceuticals flushed down toilets or sinks end up at
sewage treatment plants or septic systems that aren't designed to treat such
wastes and don't remove some pharmaceuticals.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Also, Cuomo said,
drinking water treatment plants, including those that chlorinate drinking
water, don't consistently remove pharmaceuticals.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">"The nine million
people who get their water from the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City> watershed enjoy some of the
cleanest, safest and best water in the world," said Cuomo. "We need to make
sure it stays that way. These...settlements provide a new model to implement
immediate and sensible precautions to keep waste drugs out of the drinking
water supply."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Parties to the
settlement were: Putnam Nursing and <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Rehabilitation</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> in Holmes in <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Putnam</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType>; O'Connor Hospital and <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Countryside</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Care</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>, both in <st1:City w:st="on">Delhi</st1:City>
in <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Delaware</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType>; and <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Margaretville</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Memorial</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Hospital</st1:PlaceType> and <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Mountainside</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Residential</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Care</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
in Margaretville, also in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Delaware</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Telephone messages
seeking comment from the five facilities weren't immediately returned
Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Cuomo's
investigation initially found a range of state and federal violations at the
health care facilities, including failure to properly label, store, track and
dispose of pharmaceuticals, Cuomo's office said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Each facility was
fined between $3,500 and $12,000 for various violations, including flushing
drugs, said Richard Bamberger, a spokesman for
Cuomo.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 9pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; mso-margin-top-alt: 9.0pt; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Cuomo's office
also is investigating 10 other health care facilities on the watershed,
officials said.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-TOP: 9pt; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ideograph-numeric; punctuation-wrap: hanging"><I><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Copyright
2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be
published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face="Arial Narrow" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'">Firouzan 'Fred' Massoomi,
Pharm.D., FASHP</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><o:p></o:p></P>
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