As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:
means as defined in Section 4031 of the Business and Professions
Code;
means and includes drugs intended for use in the diagnosis,
care, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease, disorders, sickness
or ailment in man or other animals.
means such terms as defined in Section 4033 of the Business
and Professions Code.
means as defined in Section 4160 of the Business and Professions
Code.
(Prior code § 5170)
A.
No pharmacist,
physician, surgeon, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian, nurse, nurse's
aid or helper, or the agent or employee of the foregoing or of any
clinic or hospital, or other person or custodian responsible for the
disposal of the following, shall dispose of, leave or discard outside
the exterior walls of the building wherein used, any container, bottle,
syringe, hypodermic needle or hypodermic syringe, or needles, designed
for or used in dispensing, giving or injecting medicines, drugs or
poisons, or any bandage, dressing or gauze that has been used in treating
or caring for an infectious or contagious disease, except as follows:
1.
By
placing the foregoing in metal trash containers which have overlapping,
flytight lids. The lids shall be secured in place at all times while
the container is not being filled or emptied. The containers, except
while being filled or emptied under supervision of the foregoing persons,
shall be sealed by a lid securely fastened with a padlock or similar
locking device under the control of such persons; or
2.
By
incineration in an incinerator approved by the Air Pollution Control
District.
B.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, bandages, dressings or gauze that have been used in
treating or caring for an infectious or contagious disease shall either
be incinerated or placed in said containers securely wrapped in heavy
paper or plastic bags, the open ends of which have been tied or stapled
so as to securely contain the infectious material therein.
(Prior code § 5170)
