Dear Community,
I have to face the problem that I have to transport fully functional and
infectious virus crystals (frozen) to a synchrotron. The virus has
biosafety classification 2 (HSE group 2) and therefore transport by e.g.
Fedex has to fullfill the packing instruction 650, better 602 according
to IATA
(http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dangerous_goods/Documents/DGR52_PI650_EN.pdf).
As far as I have seen by my google search all the dry shippers do not
fulfill these criteria.
Therefore my questions are:
1.) Has someone of you have had the same problem and found a solution?
2.) How have you done the transport?
3.) Is there a dry shipper available which fulfills the requirements for
packing instruction 650?
Any comment is welcome. Thank you very much for your efforts.
Cheers,
Georg
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Universität Tübingen
Interfakultäres Institut für Biochemie
Dr. Georg Zocher
Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 4
72076 Tuebingen
Germany
Fon: +49(0)-7071-2973374
Mail: [email protected]
http://www.ifib.uni-tuebingen.de
