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§ 40.51 What materials are used to send urine specimens to the laboratory?

Wording in the annual edition revised as of Oct. 1, 2001, superseded May 2, 2023.

eCFR as of June 7, 2018 ↗
49 CFR § 40.51 — What materials are used to send urine specimens to the laboratory?. Text in force on June 7, 2018. This wording effective October 1, 2001 to May 2, 2023. Source: eCFR as of June 7, 2018, https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2018-06-07/title-49/section-40.51. Retrieved from FMCSR.com, https://fmcsr.com/reg/40.51?asof=2018-06-07, on October 26, 2026. Unofficial compilation; verify against the official source.

(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, you must use a shipping container that adequately protects the specimen bottles from shipment damage in the transport of specimens from the collection site to the laboratory.

(b) You are not required to use a shipping container if a laboratory courier hand-delivers the specimens from the collection site to the laboratory.

Amendment history

4 distinct wordings on file since Oct. 1, 1996
  1. June 1, 2023 → presenteCFR, day-precisediff vs. previous
    [88 FR 27640, May 2, 2023]
  2. May 2, 2023 → June 1, 2023eCFR, day-precisediff vs. previous
  3. Oct. 1, 2001 → May 2, 2023annual editions 2001–2016diff vs. previousviewing
  4. Oct. 1, 1996 → Oct. 1, 2001annual editions 1996–2000
    [59 FR 7357, Feb. 15, 1994, as amended at 60 FR 19679, Apr. 20, 1995]

A new entry appears whenever the regulatory words change between government snapshots. Day-precise from the eCFR (2017 onward); before that, one snapshot per annual CFR edition (revised as of October 1). Bracketed citations are the Federal Register history printed with the section.