What is called medical waste

"Medical Waste Classification Catalog" will be divided into five categories of medical waste: 1. Infectious waste refers to carry pathogenic microorganisms with the risk of infectious disease transmission of medical waste plastic medical waste, including the patient's blood, bodily fluids, feces contaminated items, infectious diseases, patients generated by the garbage, etc.; 2. Pathological waste refers to the diagnostic and treatment process generated by the human body wastes and medical experimental animal carcasses, including discarded human tissue generated during surgery, pathology after sectioning discarded human tissue, pathological wax block; 3. Pathological waste refers to human waste generated in the process of diagnosis and treatment and the carcasses of medical experimental animals, including discarded human tissues generated in the operation, discarded human tissues after pathological section, pathological wax blocks, etc.; 3. Injurious waste refers to discarded medical sharps that can stab or cut the human body, including medical needles, scalpels, scalpels, glass test tubes, etc.; 4. Pharmaceutical waste refers to obsolete, obsolete, deteriorated or contaminated discarded medicines, including discarded general medicines, discarded cytotoxic drugs and genotoxic drugs, etc.; 5. Chemical waste refers to toxic, corrosive, flammable and explosive waste chemicals, such as waste chemical reagents, chemical disinfectants, mercury sphygmomanometer, mercury thermometer, etc. [1].