Clinical Wastes

Note: “potentially infectious waste with significant health risk from dental, medical, veterinary or pathological laboratories” refers to those unsterilized materials or devices used to culture, transfer, inoculate or mix the laboratory stock cultures, or cultures, of infectious agents. Examples include culture dish, bottle, flask, tube, pipette, pipette tip, inoculation loop and inoculation wire.

All human and animal tissues, organs and body parts as well as dead animals, but excluding :

dead animals and animal tissues, organs and body parts arising from a veterinary practice or a Chinese medicine practice; and
teeth arising from a dental practice.
Note: Group 3 clinical waste is not intended to cover small quantities of human and animal tissues which cannot be completely separated from items such as dressings.

Crimean / Congo haemorrhagic fever virus;
Ebola virus;
Guanarito virus;
Hendra virus;
Junin virus;
Kyasanur forest disease;
Lassa fever virus;
Machupo virus;
Marburg virus;
Nipah virus;
Omsk virus;
Russian spring-summer encephalitis virus;
Sabia virus;
Variola virus;
Herpesvirus simiae virus (B virus); and
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.
Any materials contaminated by the above infectious materials are also classified as Group 4 waste.

Note: The Director may, by notice published in the Gazette, amend the list of pathogens under this group.

Surgical dressings, swabs and all other waste dribbling with blood, caked with blood or containing free-flowing blood.