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Old Jun 10, 2015 | 1:39 am
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
Are you sure about that? Would airport security screeners allow for it to be carried on as part of cabin baggage? It may well exceed the quart/liter bag limit. Aren't there biohazard transport concerns about such material, even for checked passenger baggage?

In some jurisdictions, placenta are considered organs and thus their transport is regulated as with transport of other human organs. Sort of the same dynamic for its treatment as biohazardous medical waste.
It seems that the issues that your post are addressing are not the ones that are posed by the OP.

Originally Posted by Anniecane
Someone told me a foreigner [...] cannot give birth in UK
There is no restriction on foreigners giving birth in the UK. I know many foreigners who have done it

Originally Posted by Anniecane
if you do so, you have to ship your placenta home for fear of transferring diseases.
There is no requirement to ship one's placenta home after birth for fear of transferring diseases. Unless the family wishes to keep the placenta, it is detroyed with all other biomedical waste.
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