This category encompasses any biological material manufactured, used, transported, or stored by industrial, medical, or commercial processes which could cause a potential infectious or toxic threat. It includes those biohazards which are infectious agents or hazardous biological materials that present a risk or potential risk to the health of humans, animals or the environment. The risk can be direct through infection or indirect through damage to the environment. Bio hazardous materials include certain types of recombinant DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid]; organisms and viruses infectious to humans, animals, or plants (parasites, viruses, bacteria, fungi, prions, rickettsia); and biologically active agents (toxins, allergens, venoms) that may cause disease in other living organisms or cause significant impact to the environment or community. TIBs are often generated as infectious waste (sharps and body fluid contaminated material) and as biological samples (biopsies, diseases for research, etc.). (JCS/DOD, CBRNE CM, (JP 3-41), 2006, p. I-7)