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Title: Section 70-3.3 - Generally accepted and alternative operating parameters

Effective Date

03/15/2006

70-3.3 Generally accepted and alternative operating parameters. (a) Unless other operating parameters have been approved pursuant to subdivision (c) of this section, operating parameters for treating of regulated medical waste in a gravity-feed autoclave shall be:

(1) at least sixty (60) minutes residence time at a temperature at least one hundred twenty-one (121) degrees Celsius and a pressure of fifteen pounds per square inch (15 psig); or

(2) at least forty-five (45) minutes residence time at a temperature at least one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees Celsius and a pressure of thirty-one pounds per square inch (31 psig).

(b) Unless other operating parameters have been approved pursuant to subdivision (c) of this section, operating parameters for treating regulated medical waste in a vacuum-displacement autoclave shall be:

(1) at least forty-five (45) minutes residence time at a temperature at least one hundred twenty-one (121) degrees Celsius and a pressure of fifteen pounds per square inch (15 psig); or

(2) at least thirty (30) minutes residence time at a temperature at least one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees Celsius and a pressure of thirty-one pounds per square inch (31 psig).

(c) No facility shall treat regulated medical waste using an autoclave at operating parameters other than those prescribed in subdivision (a) or (b) of this section, unless the treatment method has been approved by the Department as an alternative treatment technology pursuant to section 70-5 of this Part.

Volume

VOLUME A-1a (Title 10)

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