Based in Salt Lake City, Uriah Kennedy leads marketing efforts at Gentox Medical Services and has worked within medical device and laboratory service settings in bringing products from sales concept to market. Uriah Kennedy has a strong base of knowledge in critical areas of the medical industry such as proper biohazard waste disposal, which helps ensure an optimal health care environment.

As detailed in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, regulated medical wastes are decontaminated or treated in ways that reduce their microbial loads. In certain cases, this is not accomplished to a “sterile” level because the sites in which the treated waste is deposited is not itself sterile. The regulated wastes are also not subject to the same reprocessing standards of waste such as surgical instruments.

In situations where microorganism colonies are grown and amplified in laboratory cultures to high concentrations, they are often candidates for on-site decontamination. This may be accomplished through traditional steam sterilization (autoclaving) or incineration. In addition, there are more recently developed techniques such as chemical disinfection and radiowave and microwave treatment.

As a general rule, state medical waste regulations define the specific treatment method appropriate to each regulated medical waste category.