Evacuation Trap Accessories

About trap accessories

The pieces the EPA rule names alongside the traps themselves are screens, vacuum pump filters, dental tools, cuspidors and collection devices. What they catch may be a combination of dental amalgam, biological material from patients, and any other solid material sent down the vacuum line.

The screens, filters, strainers and housings that go with a trap rather than the trap itself.

Sources: EPA 40 CFR Part 441, Dental Office Point Source Category · EPA final rule, Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Dental Category (82 FR 27154, 14 June 2017)