[Question] New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on lyophilised
New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on lyophilised. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source. Ordered from the warehouse in Spain instead of origin and the transit went from a fortnight to 9 days. Entirely different proposition in August. A transit temperature logger records a…
lyophilised powder is far more forgiving than the panic threads suggest
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.
if you want to know, log it, otherwise you are guessing
insulation buys hours, not days
transit temperature is a distribution, not a number
Once in solution, the relevant risks are hydrolysis, aggregation and, for some sequences, oxidation. Refrigeration slows all three; freezing a solution introduces a separate risk at the ice interface.
Where in the fridge is it sitting now?
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.