What is Biohazard or Biomedical waste?

Interchangeably known as biohazardous, biomedical waste or biowaste, this waste stream includes:

• Cultures of infectious diseases and/or agents
• Sharps (E.g., needles, scalpels, and lancets)
• Anything soaked in blood, like gloves, gauze, and gowns
• Human body tissues
• Animal body tissues
• Human body fluids
• Wastes from rooms of patients having communicable diseases
• Something containing environmentally-restricted molecules or organisms
• Multi-hazardous substances, so-called because they contain some combination of noxious elements wherein neutralizing one can make the other more dangerous (E.g. tissue samples preserved in formalin).