for flying, hand luggage every time. the hold is not temperature controlled the way people assume
#storage-coldchain 2025-01-09
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- rotate_the_site — how cold is too cold, can it actually freeze in a normal fridge 11:46
- back_from_away — follow up i freeze aliquots and have had them test fine afterwards. others here would not do it and i understand why a cooler with two gel packs held under eight… 13:30
- rotate_the_site — update from 19 months ago: replaced the fridge, temperature is stable, no more anxiety 13:38
hand luggage
i left it out overnight by accident, bin it or use it
how cold is too cold, can it actually freeze in a normal fridge
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i left a reconstituted vial out overnight once, sent it for testing out of curiosity, it came back fine
i would bin it
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ok so does anyone freeze reconstituted vials or is that madness
lyophilised powder is genuinely robust. a warm transit is far less likely to matter than people fear
solution is not
follow up i freeze aliquots and have had them test fine afterwards. others here would not do it and i understand why
a cooler with two gel packs held under eight degrees for eleven hours on a drive
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flying with vials, hand luggage or checked
test it
update from 19 months ago: replaced the fridge, temperature is stable, no more anxiety
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a liquid cold pack tells you it was above freezing, not that your vial cooked
thats fine
reconstituted solution is the fragile part. that is where the cold chain actually earns its keep, happy to be corrected
sorry to jump in light exposure matters much less than temperature for these. i still keep them in the carton