Regulated medical waste items are saturated or dripping with human blood or caked with dried human blood including serum, plasma, and other blood components; items contaminated by human body fluids from surgery, autopsy, other medical or laboratory procedures; specimens of blood products or body fluids, and their containers; and broken and unbroken glass and plastic ware that have been in contact with infectious agents or used in animal or human patient care or treatment.

1. Cultures and stocks
2. Pathological wastes
3. Human blood and body fluid waste
4. Animal waste
5. Isolation wastes
6. Used sharps

Any person who generates, transports, stores, processes, or disposes of infectious and chemotherapeutic waste must track the waste through the shipping process to its arrival at a disposal facility. The current regulations prescribe the use of paper manifests to ensure that the waste being shipped is processed or disposed of in the manner intended by the generator. The proposed regulations allow generators, transporters and those involved in the storage, processing and disposal of regulated medical waste to use standard business documentation, including electronic tracking systems, to demonstrate compliance with the regulations, provided that all of the required information is contained in that documentation.