What is International Maritime Dangerous Goods or IMDG code?

Following are the supplements of IMDG code:
  1. EMS guide emergency reponse procedures for ships carrying dangerous goods.
  2. MFA guide medical first aid guide for using accidents envolving dangerous goods.
  3. Reporting procedures
  4. IMO / ILO / UN number for packing cargo transport units.
  5. Recommendations on the safe use of the pesticides in ships.
  6. INF code – International code for the safe carriage of packaged irradiated nuclear fuel ,
  7. plutonium and high level radioactive waves on board ships.
Classes of dangerous cargo are:
Class 1: Explosives

Division 1.1: substances and articles which have a mass explosion hazard
Division 1.2: substances and articles which have a projection hazard but not a mass explosion hazard
Division 1.3: substances and articles which have a fire hazard and either a minor blast hazard or a minor projection hazard or both, but not a mass explosion hazard
Division 1.4: substances and articles which present no significant hazard
Division 1.5: very insensitive substances which have a mass explosion hazard
Division 1.6: extremely insensitive articles which do not have a mass explosion hazard.

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  • ”6.INF code – International code for the safe carriage of packaged irradiated nuclear fuel ,
    7.plutonium and high level radioactive waves on board ships.”

    this is comes under the topic of ”What is International Maritime Dangerous Goods or IMDG code?”

    6 and 7 should me a one line also instead of waves it shall be corrected as wastes

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