2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 93 - INFECTIOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
Section 44-93-100. Generators exempt from provisions of chapter.
All in-state generators that produce less than fifty pounds of infectious waste a month are exempt from the provisions of this chapter except they shall comply with:
(1) the provisions of Section 44-93-90(A) of this chapter; and
(2) the management of the following infectious waste:
(a) sharps must be managed pursuant to this chapter and any regulations promulgated under this chapter;
(b) cultures and human blood and blood products must be managed pursuant to this chapter and any regulations promulgated under this chapter;
(c) products of conception, meaning fetal tissues and embryonic tissues resulting from implantation in the uterus, must be managed in accordance with requirements for pathological waste pursuant to this chapter and any regulations promulgated under this chapter;
(d) all other infectious waste may be disposed of as other solid waste.
HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 134, Section 1; 1995 Act No. 1, Section 4; 2002 Act No. 351, Section 1, eff July 20, 2002.
Effect of Amendment
The 2002 amendment rewrote paragraph (2)(a).
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