Offite transport is the carriage of health-care waste on the public streets away from a health-care facility. Transporting
hazardous health-care waste should comply with national regulations, and with international agreements if wastes
are shipped across an international frontier for treatment (Secretariat of the Basel Convention, 1992). Where there
are no national regulations, responsible authorities may refer to recommendations on the transport of dangerous
goods published by the United Nations. Thse are available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and
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