Guidance on regulations for the Transport of Infectious Substances
Please note that this document has been replaced by Guidance on regulations for the Transport of Infectious Substances 2007-2008
Revised September 2005
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This translation was performed by the project “Strengthening the Services of Public Health Laboratories”, an EU funded project managed by the European Agency for Reconstruction and implemented by Eptisa International
Contents
- Introduction
- Definitions and classification
- Exemptions
- General preparation of shipments for transport
- Packaging, labbelling and documentation requirements for infectious substances in Category A
- Packaging, labbelling and documentation requirements for infectious substances in Category B
- Overpacks
- Refrigerants
- Training
- Recommendations for countries that have not adopted the United Nations system
- Transport planning
- Requirements for air mail
- Spill clean-up procedure
- Incident reporting
- Annex 1. Additional information on the United Nations System for the Transport of Dangerous Goods
- Annex 2. Examples of infectious substances included in Category A
- Annex 3. Packing Instruction P620
- Annex 4. Packing Instruction P650
- Annex 5. Flowchart for the classification of infectious substances and patient specimens