title: Colour-coded waste disposal explained.
abstract: The long-awaited guidance document from the Department of Health is colourful in more ways then one. Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) 07-01: Safe Management of Healthcare Waste was published in December 2006 and replaced the old "purple book" (The Safe Management of Clinical Waste). Was it a sign of things to come that the old guidance had a purple cover, a colour which is now used to indicate cytotoxic and cytostatic wastes? Catalyst Waste Solutions' managing director Nigel Turner explains the new legislation.
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Turner
mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D017744:Medical Waste Disposal / Q000379:methods*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D017744:Medical Waste Disposal