Hazards Associated with Accidental Fires in Clinical Waste Storage
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A simple theoretical model was developed to assess the contribution of the pathogens and group D pharmaceutically active waste to the toxicity of the fire plume from an accidental fire in the stored material. The method was applied to stored waste at an authorised incinerator site and the study showed the additional hazard of the pathogen biohazard and pharmaceutically active material to be negligible compared to the products of combustion of typical plastic packaging material.
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