I would contact Cole-Parmer (http://www.coleparmer.com/) and see what they recommend. They have been very helpful in the past.

Kris

Kris F. Tesh, Ph. D.
Department of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston

              
              From: Georg
              Zocher <[log in to unmask]>

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              Sent: Tue,
              July 17, 2012 12:45:22 PM

              Subject:
              [ccp4bb] transport of fully functional virus crystals

            Dear Community,

            I have to face the problem that I have to transport fully
            functional and infectious virus crystals (frozen) to a
            synchrotron. The virus has biosafety classification 2 (HSE
            group 2) and therefore transport by e.g. Fedex has to
            fullfill the packing instruction 650, better 602 according
            to IATA (http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dangerous_goods/Documents/DGR52_PI650_EN.pdf).
            As far as I have seen by my google search all the dry
            shippers do not fulfill these criteria.

            Therefore my questions are:

            1.) Has someone of you have had the same problem and found a
            solution?

            2.) How have you done the transport?

            3.) Is there a dry shipper available which fulfills the
            requirements for packing instruction 650?

            Any comment is welcome. Thank you very much for your
            efforts.

            Cheers,

            Georg

            -- Universität Tübingen

            Interfakultäres Institut für Biochemie

            Dr. Georg Zocher

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            72076 Tuebingen

            Germany

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