Our Services

We offer assistance to agencies that need help classifying patient specimens and cultures as category A, category B or exempt human or animal specimens. We can help you determine if Materials of Trade is applicable for the materials you ship.

On-site Training (clinical research, public health laboratories and community-based organizations)

• Hazardous materials or dangerous goods for shippers
  Can be adapted/specific for your facililty
  
  
• Preparedness training
  Subjects include chemical terrorism, bioterrorism preparedness

Editing and development of training materials (medical and non-medical personnel) and laboratory protocols-need help on subject matter content (editing, subject matter), we have experience on the following topics…

• Chemical Terrorism
• Bioterrorism
• Infectious agents
• Shipping patient specimens, cultures, refrigerants (such as dry ice)

Consultation

• Regulatory compliance, including DOT, US Postal Service, ICAO, and IATA
• Corrective actions
• Division 6.2 classification

Do you have questions on...

• Whether a clinical specimen is regulated as a hazardous material?
• Whether the specimens transported out of your facility are considered exempt human or animal specimens?
• If you are eligible to use the DOT Materials of Trade exception ?
• If your couriers need training?

Example of specialized/specific services offered:

Division 6.2 training and record keeping

• Category A infectious substances
• Category B infectious substances
• Exempt human and exempt animal specimens
• Materials of Trade

Curation and editing for knowledge databases

• Experience extracting and editing information on mammalian and plant proteins