Any waste materials capable of producing a disease by an organism likely to be pathogenic to healthy humans, such as the following:

• Discarded cultures and stocks of microorganisms, specimens, vaccines and associated items containing organisms likely to be pathogenic to healthy humans.
• Human blood and certain body fluids as defined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• Items saturated or caked with human blood or body fluids that would release blood/body fluid in a liquid or semi liquid state if compressed or would flake if handled.
• Human tissue or anatomical wastes.
• Sharps (needles, syringes with attached needles, and scalpel blades: Needles, syringes with attached needles, scalpels, scissors lancets, guide wires and glass pasture pipettes, etc.).
• Animal carcasses, body parts, bedding and related wastes when intentionally infected with organisms likely to be pathogenic to healthy humans.
• Any residue or contaminated soil, water, or other debris resulting from the clean-up of a spill of infectious waste.
• Any solid waste contaminated by or mixed with infectious waste.
• Products of recombinant DNA or synthetic nucleic acid experiments as defined by the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules.