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c/coldchain·submitted 11 months ago by u/anders_karlsen

unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about ice pack is guesswork

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unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about ice pack is guesswork — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. A transit temperature logger records a distribution, and time above a threshold matters as much as peak temperature. That is the argument for logging rather than guessing. Put a…

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u/jarno_adeyemi17 points·11 months ago

Is this a line they hold in regional stock or is it shipping from origin?

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u/milan_mensah4 points·11 months ago

Is this a line they hold in regional stock or is it shipping from origin?

This is the distinction that resolves most threads here — powder and solution are different problems.

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u/coldchain_karencold chain-5 points·11 months ago

How many days in transit, and which month?

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[deleted]1 point·11 months ago

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u/kofi_ferreira1 point·11 months ago·edited

How many days in transit, and which month?

Disagreeing with this line only: freezing a reconstituted vial is not a safe default.

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u/anders_karlsenOP3 points·11 months ago

Gel pack fully liquid on arrival, powder tested 97.7% against a claimed 97.5% afterwards. The pack had done its job for as long as it was designed to.

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u/andres_restrepo3 points·11 months ago

Which lane, and had it been quoted at that transit time?

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