Anonymous public comment

I think clear instructions for the hospitals is necessary. I'd like to see only hazardous labeling required on storage bins in the pharmacy, and any return/waste bins. We trialed this process and some staff thought that every dose should be labeled with a sticker for Hazardous Waste/Dispose of Properly stickers and it was incredibly labor intensive and questionably valuable. If the dose is administered by the nurse, there is no waste to worry about, even residual in a syringe. Returns to the pharmacy are handled appropriately and put back into circulation and use as able. True waste could then be dispose of with any Universal Waste, appropriately labeled as such, and appropriately handled by Environmental Services of the hospital. In addition, consulting companies and reverse distributers will try to capitalize on these regulations for profit-making, and if we do not make the regulations very clear, it will continue to raise the costs of doing business in health care.