What Is the Origin of Biomedical Waste?

Biomedical waste is any waste fabricated during the diagnosis, testing, treatment, research or production of biological materials by either animals or mankind. Biomedical waste has the potential to be hazardous to human health if it is left unregulated.

Biomedical Waste Facilities

• Biomedical waste facilities, such as hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, laboratories, funeral homes, dentist offices, veterinarian or physician complexes, medical transporters (e.g., ambulances) and storage and treatment facilities for biological entities, all produce biomedical waste.

Human and Animal Biomedical Waste

• Human body parts, tissues and organs, as well as animal body parts, carcasses, excreted bodily wastes, parts containing blood and wastes generated at veterinary hospitals produce biomedical waste.

Microbiology and Biotechnology Biomedical Waste

• Microbiology and biotechnology cultivate biomedical waste in the form of laboratory cultures, live or non-live vaccines, human and animal cell cultures used during research and biological toxin waste.

Secondary-Contact Biomedical Waste

• Items that come into contact with biological-waste functions are also considered biomedical waste originators. Needles, syringes, blades, scalpels, blood stained material or cotton balls and dirtied plasters are a few such examples.

Synthetic Biomedical Waste

• Discarded medicines, used tubing and catheters, chemicals used for disinfection purposes and any waste that is a consequence of laboratory upkeep are all instigators of biomedical waste as well.

Altered Biomedical Waste

• Even if biomedical waste is chemically altered, by fire or by water, it is still classified as biomedical waste. Thus, ashes created from burned biomedical material or diluted formulas containing biomedical waste are also origins of biomedical waste.