The Mayo Clinic‘s Jacksonville, Fla. location was fined $10,000 by the state for minor violations of hazardous waste disposal laws.
Inspectors from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection found 15 potential problems, which led to two violations that brought small fines, the Florida Times-Union reported.
One violation came in the form of boxes of needles and vials containing toxic chemotherapy drug residue that were being disposed of as biomedical waste. Federal law requires leftover chemotherapy drugs to be treated as hazardous waste.
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None of Mayo’s violations put anyone’s health at risk or harmed the environment, according to the Department of Environmental Protection.
A Mayo official said the hospital welcomes the state’s scrutiny, according to the report. “Mayo takes these violations very seriously and made sure we corrected them,” he said.
