                      Notes from Meeting with Stericycle
                                       
                                       
Attended by:
Stericycle Staff:	Celine Hoboy
TCH Group, LLC Staff:	Carl Gist

EPA Staff:	Charlotte Mooney, Lisa Lauer, Jessica Young, Kristin Fitzgerald, Samantha Lewis, and Meghan Hessenauer

Date:			December 8, 2010

EPA met with representatives from Stericycle.   Stericycle discussed the comments they submitted on the Office of Water's draft Best Management Practices for Unused Pharmaceuticals at Health Care Facilities. They informed EPA that reverse distributors are not repurposing pharmaceuticals, as our guidance had assumed.  Stericycle also informed EPA that hospitals tend not to have Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) departments, but that those roles fall to facilities staff or infectious nurses.
