Guernsey’s Health and Social Care department has been fined £10,000, after clinical waste was sent to an island recycling plant.
A blood analysis machine was found at the site in December 2015. It contained pouches of a fluid that had been used for analysis and also contained blood.
HSC says the pouches would have contained half an egg cup full of blood at the most, but admitted that correct procedures had not been followed for the disposal of waste.