Canada offers solution to transportation rule threat
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
A Canadian proposal put forward at a World Health Organization meeting last month could spare many manufacturers in the medical devices and diagnostics industry from the potentially costly repercussions of the forthcoming application of the United Nations international transport regulations concerning dangerous goods to diagnostic specimens. The proposal to split up diagnostic specimens into more and less hazardous categories will be submitted to the committee of experts on the transport of dangerous goods in December 2001.