NIOSH to release new list of hazardous drugs
OSHA Healthcare Connection, March 4, 2008
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It looks like fewer drugs than expected will make the hazardous drug list.
By the end of the month, the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) plans to release its updated list of drugs hazardous to healthcare workers, reported Inside OSHA on February 15. On the advice of a 10-member expert panel, NIOSH has decided to scale back the 62-item list initially proposed last summer.
The agency last published a list of hazardous drugs in September 2004 as part of Preventing Occupational Exposure to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings.
A NIOSH researcher told Inside OSHA that the agency is giving particular attention drugs in the gray areaâ?"those that are very toxic but pose little hazard to workers in healthcare settings.
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