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c/coldchain·posted 9 months ago by u/nadia_kjaer

Germany: lyophilised, and what it actually costs here

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Germany: lyophilised, and what it actually costs here — 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 logger in three consecutive orders. Two never went above the range at all and the third spent four hours warm on a Friday. Cost me almost nothing to stop wondering.

You cannot infer potency from a temperature record. The record tells you what happened to the box; only a test tells you what happened to the material.

Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.

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u/nikhil_asante4 points·9 months ago

Once in solution, the relevant risks are hydrolysis, aggregation and, for some sequences, oxidation. Refrigeration slows all three; freezing a solution introduces a separate risk at the ice interface.

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u/zeynep_ndiaye-12 points·9 months ago

Disagree with the panic framing. Lyophilised material tolerates ordinary transit conditions far better than these threads imply.

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u/anya_rautio2 points·9 months ago

Regional stock changes the question rather than answering it: shorter lanes mean less exposure and fewer variables, which is why the warehouse question is worth asking before ordering in summer.

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u/nadia_kjaerOP1 point·9 months ago·edited

Do you know what storage condition the stability statement covers?

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