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Biohazard Waste

Biohazardous waste is sometimes referred to as infectious waste or regulated medical waste. The following materials are considered biohazardous waste:

  • Sharps 
  • Dressing materials and disposable medical equipment 
  • Human and nonhuman primate blood, tissue, bodily fluids, and cell lines 
  • Cultures or stocks of pathogenic or infectious agents 
  • Recombinant or synthetic nucleic acids
  • Contaminated laboratory waste including PPE 
  • Animal carcasses or body parts that have been exposed to any biohazard

Laboratory or clinical personnel are responsible for identifying, packaging, decontaminating, and storing biohazardous waste properly.

 

To submit a biohazardous waste pickup please navigate to our chemical inventory on Campus optics. The link below will direct you directly to submit a waste request through campus optics.  

Biohazardous Waste Pick-Up Request

Sharps are instruments used to cut or puncture body parts. If sharps are disposed of improperly they can injure others and potentially expose them to infectious materials.  Used sharps must be collected in commercially available sharps containers. Sharps containers are red, hard-sided, leak proof, and labeled with the universal biohazard symbol on the outside of the container.

Poster:

What is Biohazard Waste?

Regulation: 

49 CFR 173.197