Poisons infectious substances

Hazard classes (DOT) The nine descriptive terms established by the United Nations committee of experts to categorize hazardous chemical, physical, and biological materials. Categories are flammable liquids, explosives, gaseous oxidizers, radioactive materials, corrosives, flammable solids, poisons, infectious substances, and dangerous substances. 

Field First Aid Remove victim(s) to an area of safety (away from the Hot Zone). Remember patients may contaminate you and/or other emergency responders if you fail to don proper personal protective equipment. Provide victims with emergency medical care as soon as possible. Unless otherwise recommended, remove victim(s) clothing, shoes, and personnel belongings for later return. If the victim was obviously in contact with infectious substance(s), flush skin and eyes for fifteen to twenty minutes. Route victim(s) to hospital for a physician s professional opinion. Ensure that hospital staff is fully aware of the medical situation and the poison or infectious substance that may be involved. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test (ELISA) is now approved for anthrax use in hospital laboratories. 

Division 5.1 Oxidizer Division 5.2 Organic peroxide Class 6 Poisonous material and infectious substance... 

Division 6.1 Poisonous materials Division 6.2 Infectious substance Class 7 Radioactive material Class 8 Corrosive material Class 9 Miscellaneous hazardous material... 

Poisonous (toxic) and infectious substances 6.1 Poisonous (toxic) substances 6.2 Infectious substances Substances liable either to cause death or serious injury or to harm human health if swallowed or inhaled or by skin contact. Substances containing viable microorganisms or their toxins which are known, or suspected, to cause disease in animals or humans. 

Poisonous (toxic) and infectious substances 6.1 Poisonous (toxic) substances, e.g. potassium cyanide. 

Poison—Packing Group III Division 6.2 Infectious substance... 

Class 6.2 infectious substances are the last type of toxic effect that will be presented here. Etiological toxins are among the most poisonous materials known. For example, the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, the cause of botulism, is a single cell that can release a toxin so potent that four-hundred thousandths of an ounce is enough to kill 1,000,000 laboratory guinea pigs. 

Failure to mark Biohazard on an infectious substance or Inhalation hazard on a package containing a poison by inhalation hazard. 172.313(a), 172.323 4,000. 

Class 6 Toxic and infectious substances—eventually poison ... 

Toxic/Poison Package Markings, and/or Infectious Substances. 

Class 6 materials are divided into two divisions Division 6.1 (toxic or poisonous) and Division 6.2 (infectious substances). A toxic material, other than a gas, is a material that is known to be so toxic to humans that it presents a hazard to health during transportation. Material toxicity may fall into three categories oral, dermal, and inhalational. Division 6.2 are materials known to contain, or are suspected of being, a pathogen. 

Also known as the pharmacy or, in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world, the chemist s, a drugstore is our source for literally thousands of chemicals that can he used to improve our health and well-being. And each year, dozens of new chemical compounds are added to that list of lifesaving and life-improving substances. These compounds include products for the relief of pain, the treatment of allergies and stomach disorder, protection from environmental hazards, cure of infectious diseases, alleviation of body aches and sores, the remedy for poisonous bites and toxic chemicals, and a host of other beneficial results. 

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