I would contact Cole-Parmer (http://www.coleparmer.com/) and see what they recommend. They have been very helpful in the past.
Kris Kris F. Tesh, Ph. D. Department of Biology and Biochemistry University of Houston ________________________________ From: Georg Zocher <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, July 17, 2012 12:45:22 PM Subject: [ccp4bb] transport of fully functional virus crystals 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 -- 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
