METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING MEDICAL MATERIALS SAFE

摘要

Infectious medical materials (2) are rendered harmless by heating heterogene- ous medical materials having wet and dry portions with a radio-frequency electric field(s). The medical materials (2) may be comminuted (4) prior to heating. The medical materials are exposed to the ra- dio-frequency electric field (5) in order to heat the medical materials. The medical materials (2) may include sorted medical or veterinary waste which after heat treat- ment may be recycled (7).