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c/coldchain·posted 1 months ago by u/kian_solberg

[Question] how do you actually verify ice pack

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how do you actually verify ice pack. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post.

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.

A transit temperature logger records a distribution, and time above a threshold matters as much as peak temperature. That is the argument for logging rather than guessing.

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.

If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.

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u/anya_rautio19 points·1 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/nikhil_asante13 points·1 months ago

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.

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u/vito_chowdhury0 points·1 months ago

Push back: you cannot infer degradation from a temperature excursion alone. That is what testing is for.

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u/sunday_shot_sal1 point·1 months ago

Push back: you cannot infer degradation from a temperature excursion alone.

Disagreeing with this line only: freezing a reconstituted vial is not a safe default.

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u/noor_cardoso1 point·1 months ago

the door shelf is the worst place in the fridge

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u/zeynep_ndiaye7 points·1 months ago

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

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u/plain_titration_20244 points·1 months ago·edited

Gel pack fully liquid on arrival, powder tested 97.5% against a claimed 97.0% afterwards. The pack had done its job for as long as it was designed to.

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u/ice_pack_auditMOD4 points·1 months ago

Merged into the seasonal thread for that lane so the reports sit together.

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u/kian_solbergOP3 points·1 months ago

That is the ambient temperature at the destination, not the temperature inside the box. The logger measures the second one.

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u/andres_restrepo2 points·1 months ago

Right, and asking what the stability statement was written against is one line of email that reframes everything.

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