Edward Harry Rau

In the mid-1990s the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began a voluntary initiative to eliminate the use of mercury in medical applications in its research hospital, the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center. The intentions of the initiative were to prevent potential human exposures and spills, reduce facility decontamination costs and contribute to...

Describes the multihazardous wastes (MHW) generated by high containment laboratories, their management issues, impacts on facility operations and design, and strategies for reducing or eliminating MHW management burdens and costs.

We investigated the effectiveness of 15 min exposures to 600 and 1000 degrees C in continuous flow normal and starved-air incineration-like conditions to inactivate samples of pooled brain macerates from hamsters infected with the 263K strain of hamster-adapted scrapie with an infectivity titer in excess of 10(9) mean lethal doses (LD50) per g. Bio...

Public concern and increased cost of the disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) have led to a need to address the minimization of these wastes particularly as they pertain to research laboratories and other small users of radioactive materials. The information in this Report will prove valuable not only to the generator of this waste but to...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has implemented an enhanced and comprehensive program to reduce the use of radioactive materials and to minimize the generation of radioactive and mixed wastes. The primary drivers for this program were increasing waste management costs, difficulties in disposing of certain types of radioactive wastes, partic...

This is the report of the National Association of Physicians for the Environment Committee on Development of a Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency Clearinghouse for Biomedical Research Facilities from the Leadership Conference on Biomedical Research and the Environment held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on 1--2...

Several committees were established by the National Association of Physicians for the Environment to investigate and report on various topics at the National Leadership Conference on Biomedical Research and the Environment held at the 1--2 November 1999 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. This is the report of the Committee...

One-gram samples from a pool of crude brain tissue from hamsters infected with the 263K strain of hamster-adapted scrapie agent were placed in covered quartz-glass crucibles and exposed for either 5 or 15 min to dry heat at temperatures ranging from 150 degrees C to 1,000 degrees C. Residual infectivity in the treated samples was assayed by the int...

As the costs associated with treatment of mixed wastes by conventional methods increase, new technologies will be investigated as alternatives. This study examines the potential of using a selected mixed population of microorganisms to treat hazardous chemical compounds in liquid low level radioactive wastes from biomedical research procedures. Mic...

This paper provides an overview of the highly successful program developed by the Division of Safety to improve minimization and management of highly problematic mixed wastes generated by the intramural biomedical research activities of the National Institutes of Health. The results of the program demonstrated that biomedical research facilities ca...

Thesis (M.S.)--California State University, Northridge, 1981. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-150).