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customs clearance often breaks the cold chain, factor that in

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

Which paper are you quoting?

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with Medutest, not with what you concluded.

Customs clearance took 13 days.

Disagree on that part. 98.1% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.

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

the regulatory rodent evidence is solid, human evidence is not

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

do not editorialise in the title, put the number in the title and the opinion in the body

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

mechanistic speculation is welcome if flaired as speculation

Ireland here. Waited 8 months on a list, gave up, went private, and the total cost was roughly what I expected.

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

be kind, condescending answers are removed

Logger trace from my shipment: 21 hours at 39°C. Powder tested 98.3% against 98.4% claim. Tolerates more than the box implies.

The gel pack lasted 16 hours in a courier van, then liquid. Powder itself fine, the cold chain mostly died in transit.

Batch number? Date of test?

no dose recommendations for individuals, even here

Crossposting this to c/meta because the people who need it are not reading this community.