Basic Biological Safety – Principles and Practices
Knowing What You Have: Is It Biowaste or Trash?
There are three basic questions that can help differentiate between material that must be treated as biohazardous waste, and materials that can be managed as regular trash:
- Is it contaminated with material that is potentially infectious to humans, animals or plants?
- Can blood or other regulated body fluids be released?
- Is it a "sharps" hazard?
If you can answer "Yes" to any one of these three questions, the item must be treated as biowaste for disposal purposes.
We will now look at each of these three questions more closely.
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Updated November 27, 2007 by SAK