• 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.