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c/coldchain·posted 7 days ago by u/analog_alphabet

[Explainer] lyophilised powder is far more forgiving than you think

Explainer Well Actually ×4 Slow Clap ×3

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 0.25mg to 10mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 6 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have early fullness I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 41 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/mod_cold_roomMOD135 points·5 days ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/analog_alphabet62 points·5 days ago

excursion claims need a logger trace or a photo at unboxing, not "it felt warm"

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u/analog_alphabetOP80 points·5 days ago

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

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u/bence_ibarra94 points·5 days ago

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

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 39 weeks to accept.

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u/nikhil_asante52 points·4 days ago

customs clearance often breaks the cold chain, factor that in

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[deleted]20 points·4 days ago

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u/nightowl_injector94 points·6 days ago

Yeah, data logger is the only acceptable proof.

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u/andres_restrepo112 points·6 days ago

Slight fix: the number was 98.7, not 98.9. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/ice_pack_auditcold chain77 points·6 days ago

Not to be pedantic but ice pack and cold chain are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/careful_gradient_again32 points·6 days ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/amara_dziedzic-1 point·6 days ago

lyophilised powder is far more forgiving than reconstituted solution

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u/ferran_laurent1 point·6 days ago

lyophilised powder is far more forgiving than reconstituted solution

Disagree on that part. 97.9% and 97.6% on the same vial is normal.

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u/analog_alphabetOP1 point·6 days ago

Logger trace from my shipment: 13 hours at 22°C. Powder tested 99.0% against 98.6% claim. Tolerates more than the box implies.

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u/preservative_free_p1 point·6 days ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/osman_eriksen1 point·5 days ago

data logger is the standard, gut feeling is not

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u/prior_auth_painappeals1 point·5 days ago

Which carrier and route?

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u/phase_two_pete0 points·5 days ago
nope. mine was the opposite.
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u/india_generic_g1 point·5 days ago

gel packs last 10 hours, after that you are relying on the box itself

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u/nikhil_asante1 point·5 days ago

Yeah, data logger is the only acceptable proof.

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u/anya_rautio1 point·5 days ago

France to France takes 2 days on average, variance is 3 days

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u/ferran_laurent28 points·5 days ago

The gel pack lasted 4 hours in a courier van, then liquid. Powder itself fine, the cold chain mostly died in transit.

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u/niels_norgaard10 points·5 days ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/search_before_post18 points·5 days ago

time-at-temperature integral is the dose, not just peak temperature

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u/lina_almeida17 points·5 days ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/reship_roulette11 points·4 days ago

data logger is the standard, gut feeling is not

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u/osman_brandt14 points·4 days ago·edited

lyophilised powder is far more forgiving than reconstituted solution

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u/osman_eriksen9 points·4 days ago

This is correct. Dry powder is way more robust than liquid.

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u/nadia_kjaer17 points·5 days ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/usb_logger_ursula14 points·5 days ago

Yeah, data logger is the only acceptable proof.

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