A: All biohazard waste containers should be stored in an area / room / building separate from non-hazardous materials, appropriate for their contents, their quantities, and the frequency of their collection.

A: All individuals exposed to hazardous health-care waste are potentially at risk, including those within health-care establishments that generate hazardous waste, and those outside these sources who either handle such waste or are exposed to it as a consequence of careless management.

A: Animal blood or tissues that are considered biohazards contain hazardous biological materials that present a risk or potential risk to the health of humans, animals to the environment.

A: Commercial containers are used to collect devices or objects with corners, edges, or projections capable of cutting or piercing skin or regular waste bags, which have come into contact with biological or recombinant genetic materials.

A: items such as plastic vaginal speculums, used specimen swabs, used glucose test strips, urine dipsticks, blood-soaked drapes and gloves, and anything contaminated with OPIM