CITY: The City of East Moline.
HEALTH OFFICER: The Director of the East Moline Department of Public Health or his/her designated representative.
INFECTIOUS WASTE: Solid waste, including the following:
(A) Laboratory Waste: All cultures and stocks of infectious agents, including specimen cultures from medical and pathological laboratories, cultures and stocks from research and industrial laboratories, wastes from the production of biological, discarded live and attenuated vaccines, and culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate and mix cultures.
(B) Infectious Waste Sharps: Medical and laboratory equipment generated by an infectious waste generator or contributor that may cause punctures or cuts. Such waste includes, but is not limited to, needles, syringes, lancets, scalpel blades, contaminated broken or sharp laboratory glassware including slides, coverslips, and pasteur pipettes.
Non-Infectious Waste Sharps: Waste sharps not originating from the diagnosis, care or treatment of humans or animals.
(C) Fluid Blood, Blood Products And Body Fluids: Human blood and blood products include serum, plasma and other blood components. The term body fluid should include semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, amniotic fluid and any other body fluid visibly contaminated with blood.
(D) Animal Waste: Animal waste derived from animals afflicted with zoonotic disease or purposely infected with agents communicable to humans. Infectious animal waste should include blood and body fluids, carcasses, body parts, excrement, and bedding of these animals.
(E) Other Wastes: Other wastes as reasonably determined by the infectious waste generator, that have come into contact with human body substances or other sources which may contain pathogenic microbial agents or other biologically active materials in sufficient concentrations that exposure to the waste directly or indirectly creates a significant risk of disease.
INFECTIOUS WASTE GENERATOR: Any producer of infectious waste, to include without limitation the following categories: skilled nursing facility or convalescent hospitals, intermediate care facilities, inpatient care facilities for the developmentally disabled, chronic dialysis clinics, community clinics, health maintenance organizations, surgical clinics, urgent care clinics, acute psychiatric hospitals, laboratories, medical buildings, physician's offices and clinics, veterinary offices, dental offices and clinics, funeral homes, or other similar facilities.
INFECTIOUS WASTE GENERATOR - PRIVATE: Any producer of infectious waste and dependent upon self-injection; to include without limitation, persons with insulin dependent diabetes, persons with hemophilia using clotting factor, and persons receiving other injections or intravenous treatments.
INFECTIOUS WASTE TRANSPORTER: A person who transports infectious waste.
INFECTIOUS WASTE TREATMENT: Infectious waste treatment is defined as any method, technique or process designed to change the biological character or composition of waste, and as described herein. (Ord. 90-31, 8-20-1990)