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Thread · #storage-coldchain · 2026-03-12

best travel setup for 6 days away with vials

Spun off from a message in #storage-coldchain on 2026-03-12. 12 messages, 5 participants.

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  • surpass_two — best travel setup for 6 days away with vials 23:03
ST

a cooler with two gel packs held under eight degrees for eleven hours on a drive

SB

buy a thermometer. mine reads 5.6 on the door and two degrees lower at the back

NP

for flying, hand luggage every time. the hold is not temperature controlled the way people assume

SB

a few hours at room temperature is almost certainly nothing. a week is a different conversation

lyophilised powder is genuinely robust. a warm transit is far less likely to matter than people fear

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i have never had a lyophilised vial fail after a warm transit and i have had some bad ones

NP

coming back after 8 months, is the pinned storage table still current