Regulations on the Administration of Medical Wastes.

The purposes of these Regulations are to strengthen the safety administration of medical wastes, to prevent the spreading of diseases and to protect the environment. The present Regulations shall apply to the activities of collection, carrying, storage, and disposal of medical wastes, and the supervision and administration thereof. Medical institutions and entities of concentrated disposal of medical wastes shall establish and perfect the system of responsibility for medical waste administration and shall perform their duties to prevent the spreading of infectious diseases and occurrence of environmental pollution accidents caused by medical wastes. Medical institutions shall collect medical wastes they generate in anti-leaking and anti-penetrating special packages or sealed containers. An entity engaged in the concentrated disposal of medical wastes shall apply for the operation license with the administrative department of environmental protection (Chapter IV). The administrative departments of public health shall make regular supervision and inspection or irregular selective inspection of the disease prevention work, as well as the hygienic protection of the working personnel, in the collection, transport, storage, and disposal of medical wastes undertaken by the medical institutions and entities of concentrated disposal of medical wastes. The remaining part of the Regulations consist of legal liabilities and supplementary provisions.