The Current status of biomedical waste of solid, liquid and gaseous formulations from medical and educational laboratories in Iraqi universities and research centers was assessed using a well-structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to scientists, researchers, medical technicians and graduate students who are directly involved in laboratoiy daily activities. The responses were analyzed statistically and interpreted accordingly. The results showed diat the frequency of questionnaire respondent's affiliation gave the highest percentage frequency (69.4%) with the questionnaire of Technical Medical Institute/Al-Mansour while constitute die responses of the Dnig Control Department/Ministry of Sciences and Technology gave the lowest percentage frequency of die collected questionnaires (0.9%). Regarding to gender distribution was considered only among participants from two institutes whereas the other numbers were not meaningful. This showedmore females participants (79.1 %) among the TMI/MTU respondents than males (25.0%). The storage and assembling the chemical in appropriate, non-react able packaginga slightly higher positive response frequency compared to disagreement negative response (39.6 vs. 34.2%, respectively). Although, there were a few questions answered favorably toward a reasonable awareness about the dual use research and technology but it is till unsatisfactory for die rest of the questions raised in tiiis important category. Biological waste management was very poor. All die workers in the study group work except incentral public health of laboratories have not good practices in biowaste management.
