BioHazards Information

What are Biological Hazards?

Also known as biohazards, refer to biological substances that pose a threat to the health of living organisms, primarily that of humans. This can include medical waste or samples of a microorganism, virus or toxin (from a biological source) that can affect human health. It can also include substances harmful to other animals.

Some Examples of Biohazards Are:

• Human blood and blood products:  This includes items that have been contaminated with blood and other body fluids or tissues that contain visible blood.

• Animal waste:  Animal carcasses and body parts, or any bedding material used by animals that are known to be infected with pathogenic organisms.

• Human body fluids:  semen, cerebrospinal fluid, pleural fluid, vaginal secretions, pericardial fluid, amniotic fluid, saliva, and peritoneal fluid.

• Microbiological wastes:  Common in laboratory settings, examples of microbiological wastes include specimen cultures, disposable culture dishes, discarded viruses, and devices used to transfer or mix cultures.

Pathological waste:  Unfixed human tissue (excluding skin), waste biopsy materials, and anatomical parts from medical procedures or autopsies.

• Sharps waste: Needles, glass slides and coverslips, scalpels, and IV tubing that has the needle attached.

 

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