Sharps: Hypodermic needles, syringes (with or without the attached needle), Pasteur pipettes, scalpel blades, blood vials, needles with attached tubing, and culture dishes used in animal or human patient care or treatment, or in medical, ...
Sharps with Engineered Sharps Injury Protections (SESIP): Non-needle sharp or a needle sharp with a built in safety feature or mechanism that effectively reduces the risk of an exposure incident.
Hazardous waste capable of causing infections in humans, including contaminated animal waste; human blood and blood products; isolation waste, pathological waste; and discarded sharps (needles, scalpels or broken medical instruments).
Infectious Waste: Hazardous waste with infectious characteristics, including: contaminated animal waste; human blood and blood products; isolation waste, pathological waste; and discarded sharps (needles, scalpels or broken medical instruments.) ...
Biomedical or hospital waste includes human anatomical waste, animal waste, microbiology laboratory waste, human blood and body fluid waste and waste sharps that have not been disinfected or decontaminated.
human pathological body wastes from surgery and autopsy; contaminated animal carcasses from medical research; waste from patients with communicable diseases; and all used sharp implements, such as needles and scalpels, and certain unused sharps.
 See also: Waste, National, Hazardous substance, Characteristic, Residue
  
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