PharmEcology Launches New State-Specific Website

PharmEcology Services, a business unit of WM Sustainability Services, is pleased to announce our new website and database to better serve our clients.

New Increased EPA RCRA Civil Penalty Authority

In 2015, Congress raised the penalty authority regarding a number of statutes, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

EPA Announces Publication of the Final Rule: Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements

The EPA Administrator signed the Final Rule: Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements on October 28, 2016 and it was published in the Federal Register (FR) on November 28, 2016.

PharmEcology® Provides Disposal Guidelines for the 2016-2017 Flu Season

PharmEcology, a division of WM Sustainability Services, is pleased to publish a summary of the proper flu vaccine disposal guidelines for the 2016-2017 flu season as a public service to the healthcare community

NIOSH Publishes 2016 Hazardous Drug List

NIOSH has published its biennial update of the hazardous drug list and continued its practice of offering three tables of products: 

• Group 1: Antineoplastic drugs; 
  
• Group 2: Non-antineoplastic drugs that meet one or more of the NIOSH criteria for a hazardous drug; and 
  
• Group3: Drugs that primarily pose a reproductive risk to men and women who are actively trying to conceive and women who are pregnant or breast feeding
  

OSHA Updates Hazardous Drug Handling Website

OSHA has updated its 1999 Technical Manual on handling hazardous drugs