Biological Waste Disposal Management Options

Biological Waste Management Disposal Options: This document is designed to help you decide the appropriate method of biological waste management for your laboratory. Biological waste may consist of animal tissues, bacteria, viruses, agar plates, animal carcasses, plants, soil, contaminated lab materials (pipet tips, pipets, 96 well plates, etc.), cell cultures, human body materials, as well as other biological waste sources.  The document can be downloaded from SciShield here: https://umass.scishield.com/raft/document/8fa6c70a-6916-43be-ba60-c9e6ce... 

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