Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 444 - Sanitation
INVASIVE BODY DECORATION ESTABLISHMENTS
General Provisions
Section 444.00745 - "Sharps" defined
Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 444.00745
Current through September 16, 2024
"Sharps" means an object which has been or may have been contaminated with a pathogen through handling or during transportation and which is also capable of cutting or penetrating the skin, tissue, cartilage or mucosa of a person or a packaging material. The term includes, without limitation, needles, syringes, scalpels, broken glass, culture slides, culture dishes, broken capillary tubes, broken rigid plastic, Pasteur pipettes and similar items that have a point or sharp edge or which may break during transportation resulting in a point or sharp edge.
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R112-16A, eff. 12/19/2017
NRS 439.200
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