Ms. Charlotte A. Smith

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  PharmEcology's founder, Charlotte Smith, R. Ph., M.S., HEM, and our other employees all have extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including the reverse distribution industry which deals with large quantities of pharmaceutical waste. Having been part of the regulated community as a large quantity hazardous waste generator, we recognize the difficulty in applying the EPA's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regulations to waste pharmaceuticals. It is our goal to shorten the learning curve for others who want to insure compliance for their organizations in a cost effective manner while also insuring that hazardous pharmaceuticals do not enter water treatment plants or landfills, thereby increasing the risk of exposure in their communities.
  
  Charlotte A. Smith, Director of PharmEcology Services, Waste Management
  
  Charlotte Smith is Director of PharmEcology Services, part of Waste Management Healthcare Solutions (WMHS). She founded PharmEcology Associates, LLC in 2000 and sold the company to WMHS in April of 2009.
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  Ms. Smith is a registered pharmacist who received her BS in Pharmacy and MS in Continuing and Vocational Education from the University of Wisconsin. She is a member of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services.
  
  Ms. Smith can be reached at 414-292-3959, or at csmith@pharmecology.com.

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  is paying attention," remarked Charlotte A. Smith, R.Ph., president of PharmEcology Associates, a consultant who specializes in pharmaceutical waste management.

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  During this complimentary session, our speaker, Charlotte Smith, defined pharmaceutical waste, how and where it's generated, and the potential liabilities involved in its removal. Participants then learned why pharmaceutical waste management is such a high priority for state and federal regulatory agencies, how it relates to the Joint Commission Standards of "Environment of Care," and the application of federal and state hazardous waste rules.
  
  With this information as a foundation, Ms. Smith built a step-by-step process for implementing a pharmaceutical waste management program within your facility - from the initial plans, to the choice of implementation model, to the development of polices and procedures, to the final launch of the program.
  
  About the speaker
  
  Charlotte Smith, R. Ph., M.S. is the president of PharmEcology Associates, which she founded in 2000 to assist the healthcare industry in reducing and managing pharmaceutical waste. Ms. Smith is a registered pharmacist who received her B.S. in Pharmacy and M.S. in Continuing and Vocational Education from the University of Wisconsin. She is a member of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES). She also serves on the NIOSH Hazardous Drug Working Group.

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  For your convenience, a selection from the list covering pharmaceuticals specifically is reproduced below. (This selection is based a table appearing in an article by Charlotte Smith in the Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, November-December, 2002.
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  The article by Charlotte Smith cited above points out that "their status as a RCRA hazardous
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  Charlotte Smith, Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, November-December, 2002) "http://www.ashp.org/practicemanager/PSW article.pdf": http://www.ashp.org/practicemanager/PSW article.pdf
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  Charlotte Smith, Health Facilities Management, January 2001, http://www.h2e-online.org/pubs/news/envsvcs.pdf
  
  Risk Management of Pharmaceuticals Entering POTWs and Municipal Landfills from Routine Hospital Waste Management Practices, Charlotte Smith

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  Published on: 4/7/2007    Last Visited: 4/7/2007  

  In 90 minutes, pharmaceutical waste experts Richard Verch and Charlotte Smith translate RCRA's non-industry-specific requirements into clear guidance on how to discard recalled, rejected and expired pharmaceuticals.
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  Charlotte Smith is president of PharmEcology Associates, LLC, a firm she founded in 2000 to help the healthcare industry reduce and manage pharmaceutical waste.She co-founded Capital Returns, a nationally known pharmaceutical reverse distributor in 1991, and for 10 years served as president and chief regulatory adviser.In those positions, Charlotte pioneered the application of the EPA's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations to pharmaceutical waste streams within the reverse distribution industry and developed management systems to assist healthcare facilities in reducing and managing pharmaceutical waste.She is a registered pharmacist and serves on the CDC's NIOSH Hazardous Drug Working Group.

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  Charlotte Smith, of PharmEcology Associates, said the proposed rule amendment should make things easier for hospitals to manage pharmaceutical waste, but there are some problems with the current version of the proposal.
  
  Under RCRA, extensive manifests have been required to make sure hazardous waste reaches an authorized disposal facility and is properly handled. This cradle-to-grave chain of ownership has been one way to prevent drug diversion as well as illegal dumping. The current version of the Universal Waste Rule would not require the same level of documentation for transport and disposal, Smith explained.
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  Smith said she would like to see the Universal Waste Rule ease restrictions in hospitals, as currently proposed, but add language to preserve cradle-to-grave documentation for disposal now required under RCRA.
  
  Regardless of the disposal questions, the proposed rule is intended to make managing waste easier. But EPA also hopes the new rule leads to cost savings by eliminating the need to sort pharmaceutical waste.
  
  Smith said that in some cases, pharmacies would be able to store waste for longer periods of time to allow for fewer disposal pickups each year.

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  Only nine of the 100s of chemotherapy drugs are deemed hazardous waste. (Because only nine of them existed in 1976.) According to Charlotte Smith, president of PharmEcology, an environmental consulting firm for the healthcare industry, five percent of the drugs on the market need to be disposed of as hazardous waste.
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  "Unless there is a lot of pressure applied, I don't think there will be [any additional regulations,]" Smith said.
  
  In the meantime, Smith and others are encouraging what she calls "best management practices".She says hospitals should go beyond the RCRA requirements, treating all drugs as hazardous so they don't end up in our waterways.Rather than putting drugs in the trash or down the drain (where they make their way out to sea), Smith recommends that these drugs be incinerated, despite concerns over the pollution from medical waste incinerators.Smith admits that it's not a perfect solution, but she said, "We have compromises to make.

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  Q&A with Charlotte A. Smith
  
  A Q&A with Charlotte A. Smith highlights the best practices for managing pharmaceutical waste in order to achieve regulatory compliance.
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  Charlotte A. Smith, RPh, MS, HEM, is president of PharmEcology Associates, LLC, an information management and consulting company specializing in the cost-effective and compliant management of hazardous pharmaceutical waste.She can be reached at > This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it > or 414-292-3959.

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  Published on: 10/27/2008    Last Visited: 11/26/2008  

  Charlotte Smith, president of PharmEcology Associates, LLC, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, traveled to the area on October 22 to personally announce that Northern Michigan Regional Hospital of Petoskey, Michigan is the first hospital in the country to achieve PharmE® Certification. This unique designation verifies that the healthcare facility has successfully designed and implemented a pharmaceutical waste management program in compliance with applicable federal, state and local regulations and has adopted best management practices to prevent virtually all drugs from being drain disposed or landfilled.
  
  "Northern Michigan Regional Hospital is to be commended on this ground-breaking effort," Smith said.

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  Charlotte A. Smith, President, PharmEcology
  
  Charlotte Smith is President of PharmEcology Associates, LLC in Brookfield, WI.She has been published in the Journal of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin and has given numerous presentations on the proper identification and management of pharmaceutical wastes.Please join Triumvirate in welcoming her as our guest speaker as we discuss the challenges of managing hazardous waste pharmaceuticals.

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