Hi all,
an additional possibility would be to transport the crystals on dry ice.
This might be a completely stupid idea as the temperature is only -78°C.
But as dry ice shipment of such kind of material is less problematic and
transport material is available it would be fairly easy. And you can
easily put your crystals in a robot puk (higher thermal capacity, more
stable) which by itself can be placed into a "primary container".
Does someone of you have transported crystals on dry ice?
Cheers,
Georg
Am 17.07.2012 20:42, schrieb Kris Tesh:
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
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*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] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://www.ifib.uni-tuebingen.de <http://www.ifib.uni-tuebingen.de/>
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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
