A comprehensive guide to shipping infectious substances training manual rutledge art cook dave 9780968775905 books amazonca. This guide for shippers of infectious substances was originally developed in 2009 to assist shippers with classifying documenting marking labelling and packaging infectious substances the revised version of 2015 also addresses the refrigeration of infectious substances with ice pads dry ice and using dry shippers. The table below is a guide for classification of infectious substances contained in patient specimens table 2 classification of human or animal specimens patient specimen condition there is no reason to believe sample contains infection substances include routine tests for diagnosis of an infectious substances when there is suspicious of an infectious disease category a infectious