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Laboratory Shipping Label
Notice
Effective January
1, 2007:
All UN labels 3373
need to be changed to include Biological Substance
Category B
Labels can be
purchased from :
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Class 1:
Explosives
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Class 2: Gases
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Class 3:
Flammable Liquids
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Class 4:
Flammable Solids
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Class 5:
Oxidizers/Organic Peroxides
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Class 6: Toxic
and Infectious Substances
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Division
6.1 – Toxic Substances
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Division
6.2 – Infectious Substances
An infectious
substance which is shipped in a form that, when exposure to it
occurs, is capable of causing permanent disability,
life-threatening or fatal disease to humans or animals.
Category A substances that affect humans are assigned to
UN2814. This includes viral
isolates from cultures of HIV and Hep B.
Any human or
animal material including, but not limited to, excreta, secreta,
blood, and its components, tissue and tissue fluids, and body
parts being transported for purposes as research diagnosis,
investigational activities, disease treatment or prevention
and/or any infectious substance which does not meet the criteria
for inclusion in Category A. For shipping purposes, these are
considered to be Category B biological specimens
and must be assigned
to UN 3373.
Note: Some countries do not recognize Category B; in these
cases, specimens must be shipped as Category A.
Exempt Human
Specimens is a new category for low risk items that have a
slight probability of being infectious. This category includes
routine blood testing such as in insurance screening and drug
testing, dried blood spots, faecal hemocults, and screened blood
products. Exempt specimens should be packed as category B
samples using diagnostic shipping (PI 650) packing until all
carriers formalize rules within their respective companies.
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Class 7:
Radioactive material
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Class 8:
Corrosives
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Class 9:
Miscellaneous Dangerous Goods
Additional training
information is available from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
http://hazmat.dot.gov/training/Transporting_Infectious_Substances_Safely.pdf
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