by Claudia Campos
311healthbeat.blogspot.com
Hospitals follow Food and Drug Administration guidelines to recycle medical devices, reducing medical waste and eliminate thousands of tons of waste form landfills. FDA reports recycle devices are safe. States are lobbying legislation so that health-care providers get patients informed concern when using these reprocessed and recycled devices. Article in the Wall Street Journal by Laura Landro titled "Hospitals Reuse Medical Devices To Lower Costs" said that hospitals are on board with this procedure of recycling and that the FDA is aware and approves.
www.wsj.com
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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