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NEW YORK, NY – BioSAFE is honored to announce that its Chief Executive Officer Phillip Mervis will speak alongside national and world leaders at the upcoming 11^th Annual C3 US-Arab Healthcare and Business Summit. The summit is to occur on Sept. 19 at the Union League club in New York, NY.

Mervis is to appear on a panel of five, which includes Ambassador Dr. Deborah Birx and other prominent health leaders from the United States and Saudi Arabia. The panel will discuss the future of healthcare in a post-COVID Middle East. Topics of interest include health and environmental standards, public health risk containment, and management of biological waste in times of crisis.

The same morning, Mervis will also moderate a discussion on how hospitals, clinics, and laboratories can reduce their healthcare waste recycling costs.

The C3 Summit brings together business leaders, government officials and healthcare luminaries from both the United States and the Middle East to encourage American investment in health and industry in Arab countries. Summit leaders hope to build positive partnerships between the USA and these various countries to yield economic, diplomatic, and humanitarian hope for the future. This is especially important to our freshly post-COVID-19 world.

Birx is the former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, leading public health efforts in 2020 and 2021 under President Donald Trump. Prior to that she was the US Global AIDS coordinator and worked for three decades in the areas of global health, vaccine research, and immunology for HIV and AIDS.

Mervis is the Chairman and CEO of BioSafe Engineering and a leader in the field of the treatment and disposal of biological waste. He also has experience as COO of a recycling company that processed over 1 billion pounds per year of metals, plastics, paper, and electronics. He has used this background to help BioSAFE begin recycling medical and laboratory plastics in addition to its specialized focus.

BioSAFE Engineering is the global leader in the design, manufacture, installation, and service of waste treatment equipment used in research facilities, healthcare, industry, and science to eliminate the threat of hazardous or infectious agents. Its team of visionary engineers specializes in using advanced scientific applications to create unique non-incineration methods that treat and dispose of biological and medical waste in both liquid and solid forms. They seek always to remain environmentally responsible.

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Indianapolis, IN, September 2020 – More than six months in from the start of the global response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, data from hospitals and medical providers suggests that medical waste generation has significantly increased over this time period. “Hospitals in Wuhan, the center of the COVID-19 outbreak, produced more than 240 tons of single-use plastic-based medical waste (such as disposable face masks, gloves, and gowns) per day at the peak of the pandemic, 6 times more than the daily average before the pandemic occurred. If the increases observed in Wuhan hold true elsewhere, the United States could generate an entire year’s worth of medical waste in 2 months”¹.

In addition to medical waste generated by increased personal protective equipment (PPE) usage, the efforts to create and then effectively distribute a vaccine are expected to generate significant amounts of medical waste that will need to be disposed of safely and environmentally consciously. This will require efficaciously treating mixed source waste at scale while avoiding the harmful environmental and human health impacts of incineration.

BioSAFE Engineering’s STI commercial Medical Waste Treatment System offers hospitals and pharmaceutical companies an onsite decontamination option that efficaciously and reliably inactivates all bacteria, viruses (including COVID-19) mycobacterium, parasites, fungi and bacterial spores.

Once treated, STI systems render medical waste contaminates safe to the general public and the environment. STI non-incineration Regulated Medical Waste Treatment systems incorporate integral shredding, steam treatment and dehydration.

The STI Medical Waste Treatment system is fully enclosed. Air entering the STI systems is HEPA filtered at 99.97% minimum efficiency at 0.3 micron to assure that airborne contaminants are contained by the system assuring safety for healthcare waste treatment personnel.

¹https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6509/1314
Accumulation of plastic waste during COVID-19
BY TANVEER M. ADYEL
SCIENCE11 SEP 2020 : 1314-1315

I’ve been with BioSAFE around four months; I learned about the company from some of the current employees while working as a diesel technician. Coming in I was looking for the opportunity to develop my professional skills through working alongside the skilled employees in the shop, and was looking forward to the opportunity for travel given BioSAFE’s global clients. Since joining I’ve been able to develop my welding skills, and feel that there’s still a lot to learn from my coworkers. I was surprised by the emphasis on attention to detail, which isn’t uncommon at other employers, but BioSAFE takes it to a whole other level. I’ve also been impressed by BioSAFE’s dependability, which is a point of pride for the whole team particularly as we provide an essential service during the global COVID pandemic.