Shipping Diagnostic Specimens in Hot Weather
When you're shipping Diagnostic Specimens in hot weather, that may destroy or decrease the diagnostic quality of a shipped sample. To help avoid that, please consider:
Time
- Ship overnight
- Prolonged delivery times keep samples in the hot environment longer.
- Do not ship over the weekend or holidays.
Temperature
- Pack cold packs and absorbent material on the bottom of the insulated shipper to collect moisture
- Can also place cold packs in a sealed plastic bag.
- Wrap the cold packs so that any moisture is absorbed as they melt.
- Cold packs should not be enclosed in the same bag as samples.
- Shipping containers should be leakproof.
- Using only cardboard results in weakened boxes that may tear.
- Paperwork should be packaged separately from samples in a leakproof plastic bag to keep dry and clean.
Exposure
- Provide protection to the samples by layering
- Use an insulated shipping container – a cardboard box with a Styrofoam box inside
- Fill dead space in the box with bulk material to provide additional insulation
- Keep the samples centered in the box to avoid the warmer sides
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