What is Category B infectious substances?
Category B classifies an infectious substance as not in a form generally capable of causing permanent disability or life-threatening or fatal disease in otherwise healthy humans or animals when exposure to it occurs. This includes infectious substances transported for diagnostic or investigational purposes.
What are the two categories of infectious substances?
Infectious substances are classified as Class 6.2, Infectious Substances dangerous goods. Class 6.2 has two categories: A or B. Note that Class 6.2, Infectious Substances are not assigned packing groups but are included in either Category A or B.
What is Category B sample?
Samples of materials such as blood, tissue, excreta, secreta, etc collected from humans or animals are considered, as a minimum, category B infectious substances.
Does category B requires a Class 6 infectious label on the box?
If the culture being sent is not listed by IATA as a Category A infectious substance, then it can legally be sent as a “Biological Substance, Category B,” eliminating the need to prepare a Shipper’s Declaration for Dangerous Goods or to use a UN-certified container with the Class 6 hazard label.
What is inhalation Zone B?
Compressed gas, toxic, corrosive, n.o.s. Inhalation Hazard Zone B.
What is biological substance category B used for?
UN3373 Biological Substances, Category B can be human or animal material including (but not limited to) blood and its components, tissue, tissue fluids or body parts being transported for purposes such as research, diagnosis, investigational activities, disease treatment or prevention.
What is a Category B box?
Category B infectious substances are infectious but do not meet the criteria for Category A (i.e., they are not capable of causing permanent disability, life-threatening, or fatal disease when exposed to humans or animals).
What is a Class 6.1 hazardous material?
Hazard Class 6.1: Toxic (also Poison)
What class is inhalation hazard?
Hazard Class 6: Toxic & Infectious Substances Inhalation Hazard: Toxic material that poses an inhalation hazard. includes toxic substances, poisons, and irritating materials.