NIOSH Adds Hazardous Drugs List in Health Care

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health added 27 drugs to its list of hazardous drugs that health-care workers might encounter, according to a Federal Register notice set for publication Sept. 18. NIOSH also removed 12 drugs in its current update of the list, which was first created in 2004 and last modified in 2012. The list contains three classes of drugs: chemotherapy agents, drugs that meet at least one hazard criterion (genotoxicity, carcinogen, etc.) and drugs that pose a risk to people trying to conceive or women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. NIOSH estimates that 8 million health-care ...