Re: Shipping Question My guess

["Michael Kay" <makay43@attbi.com>]

I would say that this is a reportable incident. I think abandonment makes it

a reportable incident. Since the recipient, the pharmacy, did not receive

the shipment when they were supposed to receive it, I would suggest that it

is their responsibility to report the event. The pharmacy knew that a

courier was supposed to make a delivery to them. The transporter, the

courier service, also has a duty to report this as a transportation

incident. I think both of those entities have the duty to report, and the

fact that one reports does not take the onus off the other to also report.

Now let's hear from the regulators.



Michael Kay, ScD, CHMM

makay@alum.mit.edu

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ed Stroud" <ed.stroud@state.co.us>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>



> Here's a shipping question for those interested. (This is an actual

> incident)

>

> A licensed nuclear pharmacy uses a private courier service to deliver

> (and retrieve) unit doses and vials of medical isotopes to licensed

> hospitals outside of their normal service area.  An incident occurs

> where the courier, on a return trip from the hospital back to the

> pharmacy, deliberately abandons a box of this material in a parking lot.

>  A member of the public finds the box, which is marked and labeled per

> DOT, and contacts the hospital.  The box is eventually returned to the

> pharmacy.  Management at the hospital, nuclear pharmacy and the courier

> service are aware of the incident.

>

> Here are the questions.  Should this incident be reported to the

> authorities? Why/why not?  If yes, who do you think is responsible for

> reporting this incident to the authorities - the hospital, because they

> were the shipper; the pharmacy, because they paid for the courier

> service; or the courier service, because their driver abandoned the

> material. The hospital and the nuclear pharmacy have radioactive

> materials licenses.

>

> Comments/thoughts?

>

> Ed Stroud

> CDPHE

> ed.stroud@state.co.us

>

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