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Complex Mixtures > Waste Products
Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Waste Products
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Waste Products
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Waste Products

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Waste Products  

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Note

  • MEDICAL WASTE & DENTAL WASTE are also available

Scope note

  • Debris resulting from a process that is of no further use to the system producing it. The concept includes materials discharged from or stored in a system in inert form as a by-product of vital activities. (From Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1981)

History note

  • 76; was NON MESH before 1976

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014866

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