<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Once again I find your articles very interesting but, still do not see the relevance to pharmaceutical waste unless you can enlighten me ( would be interesting to know what pharmaceuticals seen by healthcare facilities this may apply to) on how these issues are going to trickle down to hospitals and healthcare facilities concerned about disposal of pharmaceuticals and/or how it relates to enforcement by the regulatory agencies. </div><div><br></div><div>After visiting well over 100 hospitals in Florida and the Southeast, I would like to pose a question to the group concerning pharmaceutical waste disposal. How do biomedical waste companies attempt to (at least) ensure that RCRA Hazardous Pharmaceutical waste does not get disposed of in RMW or sharps containers prior to them being incinerated or sent</div><div>to an autoclave then landfill?? Follow up question... How do the regulatory agencies verify this is being done? </div><div><br></div><div>I was just enlightening someone the other day... From my experience... The best way to check a hospitals pharmaceutical waste program is</div><div>to peek inside a sharps container. You'd be surprised what you may find inside just by viewing from the opening.</div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Barry E. Stewart <br><br><a href="http://www.zenithenvironmental.com/">www.zenithenvironmental.com</a><br><br><a href="tel:772-607-1113" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5">772-607-1113</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">UPCOMING TRAINING EVENTS CLICK BELOW- PLEASE CONTACT US FOR PRICING<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://zenithenvironmentalevents.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=zenithenvironmentalevents&service=6" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">https://zenithenvironmentalevents.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=zenithenvironmentalevents&service=6</font></a></p></div></div><div><br>On May 1, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Catherine Zimmer <<a href="mailto:zenllc@usfamily.net">zenllc@usfamily.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi Barry and all,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Apparently PFOA/S are used in pharmaceuticals as well as a myriad of other</span><br><span>products. </span><br><span></span><br><span>Very truly yours,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Catherine Zimmer, MS, BSMT</span><br><span>Zimmer Environmental Improvement, LLC</span><br><span>St. Paul, MN </span><br><span>Ph: 651.645.7509</span><br><span><a href="mailto:zenllc@usfamily.net">zenllc@usfamily.net</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>From: <a href="mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us">pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a></span><br><span>[<a href="mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us">mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a>] On Behalf Of Barry Stewart</span><br><span>Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 2:08 PM</span><br><span>To: <a href="mailto:pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us">pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a></span><br><span>Subject: [Pharmwaste] Re: Pharmwaste Digest, Vol 115, Issue 2</span><br><span></span><br><span>Appreciate the info/ post ( and others posted prior) but it seems to me that</span><br><span>this group seems to be going off in other directions from the main purpose</span><br><span>of this page ... 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