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TO E RO E K SOP No.015,REV.1 ASSOCIATFS,[NG PACKAGING AND SHIPPING SAMPLES PAGE 6 • Chain-of-custody forms and seals • Appropriate dangerous goods airbills and emergency response information to attach to the airbill • Resealable plastic bags for sample jars and ice • Appropriate shipping containers as specified in the DGR • Labels that apply to the shipment such as hazard labels, address labels, "Cargo Aircraft Only" labels, and package orientation labels (up arrows) 2.0 PROCEDURES The following procedures apply to packaging and shipping nonhazardous and hazardous samples. 2.1 SAMPLE CLASSIFICATION Prior to sample shipment, it must be determined whether the sample is subject to the DGR. Samples subject to these regulations shall be referred to as hazardous samples. If the hazardous sample is to be shipped by air, then the DGR should be followed. Any airline, including FedEx, belonging to IATA must follow the DGR. As a result, FedEx may not accept a shipment that is packaged and labeled in accordance with the HMR (although in most cases,the packaging and labeling would be the same for either set of regulations). The HMR states that a hazardous material may be transported by aircraft in accordance with the ICAO Technical Instruction (49 CFR 171.11) upon which the DGR is based. Therefore,the use of the DGR for samples to be shipped by air complies with the HMR, but not vice versa. Most environmental samples are not hazardous samples and do not need to be packaged in accordance with any regulations. Hazardous samples are those samples that can be classified as specified in Section 3 of the DGR, can be found in the List of Dangerous Goods in the DGR in bold type, are considered a hazardous substance (see definition), or are mentioned in "Section 2 - Limitations" of the DGR for countries of transport or airlines (such as FedEx). The hazard classifications specified in the DGR (and the HMR) are as follows: