Pharmaceutical waste management: exemption: over-the-counter drugs and nutritional supplements.
This bill failed and is no longer moving.
- Stage
- Failed
- Started in
- Assembly
- Sponsor
- 1
- Latest action
- Nov 30, 2014
What it does
(1) Existing law, the Medical Waste Management Act, administered by the State Department of Public Health, regulates the management, handling, and disposal of medical waste, as defined, including pharmaceutical waste. Existing law, for purposes of the act, defines "pharmaceutical waste" as a prescription or over-the counter human or veterinary drug, as specified, that is waste, as defined, but excludes from that definition certain pharmaceuticals being sent out of state to a reverse distributor, or being sent by a reverse distributor offsite for treatment and disposal, as prescribed.
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