Medical Waste Law and Legal Definition
According to 33 USCS § 1402 (k), the term medical waste means "isolation wastes; infectious agents; human blood and blood products; pathological wastes; sharps; body parts; contaminated bedding; surgical wastes and potentially contaminated laboratory wastes; dialysis wastes; and such additional medical items as the Administrator shall prescribe by regulation."
Legal Definition list
- Medical Variance [Transportation]
- Medical Use of Byproduct Material
- Medical Underwriting (Health Care)
- Medical Treatment [Transportation]
- Medical Support Services [Employee Compensation]
- Medical Waste
- Medical, Surgical, and Hospital Services and Supplies
- Medically Accepted Indication
- Medically Necessary (Health Care)
- Medically Needy Family Person
- Medically Needy Person
Related Legal Terms
- Acceptable Medical Source
- Aeromedical Evacuation
- Agricultural Solid Waste
- Allowable Medical Expenses
- Ameliorative Waste
- American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
- Approved Medical Residency Training Program
- Asbestos-Containing Waste Materials [National Emission Standard for Asbestos]
- Authorized Medical Physicist
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
