Environmental Health — Flashcards

Flashcard 171: Mattresses contaminated with body fluids are segregated into the _____ category of BMW.

Answer: Yellow

Extra: According to the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, soiled waste—including items contaminated with blood and body fluids such as dressings, plaster casts, and contaminated mattresses or bedding—is segregated into the Yellow category.

Flashcard 172: desk in school should be _____ type

Answer: minus

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Flashcard 173: dimensions of trench in bangalore method of composting are _____

Answer: 3*5*15-30 feet

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Flashcard 174: _____ test is a test for chlorination and determines free and combined chlorine separately in water

Answer: Orthotolidine-arsenite (OTA)

Flashcard 175: _____ test is a test for chlorination and determines free and combined chlorine together in water

Answer: Orthotolidine (OT)

Flashcard 176: Chronic _____ exposure can lead to Blackfoot disease (PVD)

Answer: Arsenic

Flashcard 177: _____ disease (Japan), also called as ouch-ouch disease is due to nephrotoxicty caused by Cadmium.

Answer: Itai-itai

Flashcard 178: _____ test, this is used to check whether milk has been pasteurised.

Answer: Phosphatase

Flashcard 179: _____ E. coli is transmitted by water sources

Answer: Enterotoxigenic

Flashcard 180: _____ coliform count detects the presence of E. coli colonies in the drinking water

Answer: Differential