Interpretation Response #03-0161 ([ARUP Laboratories] [Mr. Paul H. Brinton])
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Interpretation Response Details
Response Publish Date:
Company Name: ARUP Laboratories
Individual Name: Mr. Paul H. Brinton
Location State: UT Country: US
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Response text:
Aug 11 2003
Mr. Paul H. Brinton Ref No. 03-0161
Assistant Vice President,
Transportation and Logistics
ARUP Laboratories
500 Chipeta Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
Dear Mr. Brinton:
This responds to your email of July 2, 2003, concerning the applicability the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR Parts 171-180) to the transportation of infectious substances. Specifically, you ask about shipping paper and package labeling requirements for a shipment containing multiple pathogens.
According to your email, you ship specimens in containers that are placed inside plastic bags and then placed within pressure vessels. Each specimen container may contain a different pathogen. Several pressure vessels are then placed with temperature media inside a secondary packaging that consists of a layer of fiberboard, a layer of urethane, and an additional layer of fiberboard that is coated with waterproofing. The secondary packagings are then placed within an outside packaging. You provide an example of a shipping paper for a single package that contains three 5-ml tubes of Hepatitis C and one 5-ml tube of Human immunodeficiency virus packed with 2.2 kg of dry ice. You ask how the different hazardous materials contained in the package should be listed on the shipping paper.
Your shipping paper entry for the infectious substances packed with dry ice should read as follows:
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Proper Shipping Name |
Class or |
UN or ID |
Packing |
Subsidiary Risk |
Quantity and type of packaging |
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Division |
No. |
Group |
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Infectious substance, |
6.2 |
UN 2814 |
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20ml |
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affecting humans (Hepatitis |
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C,Human |
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immunodeficiency virus) |
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AND |
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Carbon dioxide, solid |
9 |
UW 1845 |
III |
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2.2kg |
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Packed in 1 plastic box |