Illinois Administrative Code › Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part 1450 - PROCEDURES FOR OPERATION OF THE POTENTIALLY INFECTIOUS MEDICAL WASTE TRANSPORTER FEE SYSTEM › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 1450.100 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Except as stated in this Section, the definition of words or
				  terms in this Part shall be the same as those used in the Act.
a) "Act" means the Environmental Protection
				Act [415 ILCS 5 ].
b) "Designated
				facility" means a facility that treats, stores, transfers or disposes of
				PIMW.
c) "Potentially infectious
				medical waste" or "PIMW" -
1) means the
				following types of waste generated in connection with the diagnosis, treatment
				(i.e., provision of medical services), or immunization of human beings or
				animals; research pertaining to the provision of medical services; or the
				production or testing of biologicals:
A)
				Cultures and stocks. This waste shall include but not be limited to cultures
				and stocks of agents infectious to humans, and associated biologicals; cultures
				from medical or pathological laboratories; cultures and stocks of infectious
				agents from research and industrial laboratories; wastes from the production of
				biologicals; discarded live or attenuated vaccines; or culture dishes and
				devices used to transfer, inoculate, or mix cultures.
B) Human pathological wastes. This waste
				shall include tissue, organs, and body parts (except teeth and the contiguous
				structures of bone and gum), body fluids that are removed during surgery,
				autopsy, or other medical procedures; or specimens of body fluids and their
				containers.
C) Human blood and
				blood products. This waste shall include discarded human blood, blood
				components (e.g., serum and plasma), or saturated material containing free
				flowing blood or blood components.
D) Used sharps. This waste shall include but
				not be limited to discarded sharps used in animal or human patient care,
				medical research, or clinical or pharmaceutical laboratories; hypodermic,
				intravenous, or other medical needles; hypodermic or intravenous syringes;
				Pasteur pipettes; scalpel blades; or blood vials. This waste shall also include
				but not be limited to other types of broken or unbroken glass (including slides
				and cover slips) in contact with infectious agents.
E) Animal waste. Animal waste means discarded
				materials, including carcasses, body parts, body fluids, blood, or bedding
				originating from animals inoculated during research, production of biologicals,
				or pharmaceutical testing with agents infectious to humans.
F) Isolation waste. This waste shall include
				discarded materials contaminated with blood, excretions, exudates, and
				secretions from humans that are isolated to protect others from highly
				communicable diseases. "Highly communicable diseases" means those diseases
				identified by the Board in rules adopted under Section 56.2(e) of the
				Act.
G) Unused sharps. This waste
				shall include but not be limited to the following unused, discarded sharps:
				hypodermic, intravenous, or other needles; hypodermic or intravenous syringes;
				or scalpel blades.