[Meta] proposal — a flair for packaging posts
Housekeeping: proposal — a flair for packaging posts.
Regional stock changes the question rather than answering it: shorter lanes mean less exposure and fewer variables, which is why the warehouse question is worth asking before ordering in summer.
You cannot infer potency from a temperature record. The record tells you what happened to the box; only a test tells you what happened to the material.
Put a logger in three consecutive orders. Two never went above the range at all and the third spent four hours warm on a Friday. Cost me almost nothing to stop wondering.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Gel packs are designed for a duty cycle. A liquid pack at the end of a longer-than-expected transit is a pack behaving as specified, not evidence of an excursion in the vial.
Gel pack fully liquid on arrival, powder tested 98.6% against a claimed 98.5% afterwards. The pack had done its job for as long as it was designed to.
Small fix — refrigerated, not frozen, once it is in solution.
Retitled: the original asserted degradation the post does not evidence.
That is a lane problem rather than a packaging problem, and the fixes are different.
fridge, not freezer, once it is in solution
fridge, not freezer, once it is in solution
nils_ferreira is right that the pack failing is not the material failing. Two separate claims.
a logger costs less than a vial and answers the question permanently
Ordered from the warehouse in the Netherlands instead of origin and the transit went from a fortnight to 10 days. Entirely different proposition in August.
Yes — a logger in the box turns a fortnight of speculation into a chart.
if you want to know, log it, otherwise you are guessing
if you want to know, log it, otherwise you are guessing
Agreed, and a logger costs less than the vial you are worrying about.