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c/coldchain·posted 1 year ago by u/chidi_yilmaz

what would you tell week-1 you about data logger

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Quick one. Canada here.

ice pack works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.

Specifics: the route I used took 12 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.

Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.

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u/priya_guerrero195 points·1 year ago

Yeah, data logger is the only acceptable proof.

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u/milos_vestergaard284 points·1 year ago

Which carrier and route?

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u/chidi_abubakar139 points·1 year ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/curious_panel_only44 points·1 year ago·edited

lane reports need origin, destination, carrier, and actual transit days

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u/isabela_nilsen96 points·1 year ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/usb_logger_ursula72 points·1 year ago

France to France takes 14 days on average, variance is 24 days

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u/britt_okwuosa44 points·1 year ago

a warm courier van is a bigger problem for a mixed vial than for dry powder

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u/chidi_abubakar0 points·1 year ago

lane reports need origin, destination, carrier, and actual transit days

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u/emeka_beaulieu-35 points·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/chidi_yilmazOP1 point·1 year ago

Customs clearance took 3 days. Package sat unrefrigerated during that. Powder tested clean after, reconstituted solution probably would not have.

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u/chidi_yilmazOP1 point·1 year ago

Logger trace from my shipment: 16 hours at 31°C. Powder tested 94.2% against 96.8% claim. Tolerates more than the box implies.

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u/chidi_yilmazOP1 point·1 year ago

The gel pack lasted 11 hours in a courier van, then liquid. Powder itself fine, the cold chain mostly died in transit.

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u/intent_to_treat102 points·1 year ago

a warm courier van is a bigger problem for a mixed vial than for dry powder

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u/kian_solberg16 points·1 year ago

Yeah, data logger is the only acceptable proof.

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u/sterile_field_steph88 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. Peak temperature is not the whole story.

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u/aleksi_eriksen21 points·1 year ago

the logger trace is the data that matters, not the packaging promises

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u/cato_batista49 points·1 year ago

Yeah, data logger is the only acceptable proof.

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u/coldchain_karenMOD48 points·1 year ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/anjali_tamm39 points·1 year ago·edited

France to France takes 10 days on average, variance is 20 days

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u/anders_karlsen33 points·1 year ago

a warm courier van is a bigger problem for a mixed vial than for dry powder

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u/usb_logger_ursula13 points·1 year ago

Reconstituted or dry powder?

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u/bastian_ekstrom39 points·1 year ago·edited

the logger trace is the data that matters, not the packaging promises

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u/aleksi_eriksen38 points·1 year ago

stability after excursion is not zero, it is dose-dependent

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u/jarno_karlsen53 points·1 year ago

Yeah, data logger is the only acceptable proof.

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u/coldchain_karencold chain32 points·1 year ago

stability after excursion is not zero, it is dose-dependent

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 35 weeks to accept.

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u/preservative_free_p40 points·1 year ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/ireland_drugs_pay19 points·1 year ago

lyophilised powder is far more forgiving than reconstituted solution

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