What state is this in?  Do you have the name of the company?

Jennifer MacDonald

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> From: 	Willis, Donna[SMTP:DonnaWillis@hmhs.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, April 28, 2000 8:57 AM
> To: 	DGreen9921@aol.com; histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: 	RE: Formalin Disposal Question
>
> Donna,
> We have made arrangements with our hazardous waste site.  They would burn
> the tissue anyway, the only thing is that formalin must be burned at a
> higher temperature.  We mark the containers and they burn them at the
> higher
> temp. so that the formalin does not have to be seperated.
>
> Donna Willis
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> From: DGreen9921@aol.com
> To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: Formalin Disposal Question
> Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:01PM
>
> Should formalin solution be disposed of befor releasing tissue to a
> company
> for waste disposal? Does this vary based on the State in which disposal
> takes
> place? Or would the responsiblity lie with the waste disposal company?
> Thanks
> Donna Green HT (ASCP)
> ECM Hospital
> Florence, Al
>