title: Prudent Practices in the Laboratory: Handling and Disposing  of Chemicals
author: National Research Council
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zlib_text: Furr, A. Keith Ph.D. "NONCHEMICAL LABORATORIES"
  CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety
  Edited by A. Keith Furr, Ph.D.
  Boca Raton: CRC Press LLC,2000
  
  Chapter 5
  NONCHEMICAL LABORATORIES
  I.  INTRODUCTION
  The emphasis  in the previous chapters has been on laboratories in which the primary
  concerns were due to the use of chemicals, although in order to not completely avoid a topic
  unnecessarily, some of the problems arising in other types of operations have been
  addressed. For example, in the latter part of the last chapter some serious issues involving
  problems  with specific contagious diseases were discussed due to the increasing importance
  these diseases have in our society and in our laboratories , as a continuation of the topic of
  health effects. The problems of dealing with infectious waste were considered at some length
  as well as chemical wastes as part of the larger problem of dealing with hazardous wastes. In
  this  chapter laboratory operations which involve special problems  in othe