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c/coldchain·posted 3 months ago by u/analog_alphabet

[Meta] the excursion rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining

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Housekeeping: the excursion rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining.

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.

That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.

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u/runa_wikstrom2 points·3 months ago

A stability statement is only meaningful with its conditions attached: temperature, duration, light exposure, and whether it covers powder or solution. Ask which.

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u/ireland_drugs_pay1 point·3 months ago

Is this a line they hold in regional stock or is it shipping from origin?

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u/nadia_kjaer2 points·3 months ago·edited

Not convinced. A warm pack on day six is expected behaviour from a pack designed for four.

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u/iman_castellanos-12 points·2 months ago

Ordered from the warehouse in Denmark instead of origin and the transit went from a fortnight to 7 days. Entirely different proposition in August.

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u/brigade_detector2 points·3 months ago

Yes — reconstitution date on the vial. It is the number you will want and cannot reconstruct.

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u/priya_guerrero1 point·3 months ago

Powder or already in solution?

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u/lina_almeida1 point·3 months ago

Small fix — refrigerated, not frozen, once it is in solution.

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