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Hi all, an additional possibility would be to transport the crystals on dry ice. This might be a completely stupid idea as the temperature is only -78°C. But as dry ice shipment of such kind of material is less problematic and transport material is available it would be fairly easy. And you can easily put your crystals in a robot puk (higher thermal capacity, more stable) which by itself can be placed into a "primary container". Does someone of you have transported crystals on dry ice? Cheers, Georg Am 17.07.2012 20:42, schrieb Kris Tesh: > 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]> > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *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 > Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 4 > 72076 Tuebingen > Germany > Fon: +49(0)-7071-2973374 > Mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > http://www.ifib.uni-tuebingen.de <http://www.ifib.uni-tuebingen.de/> -- Universität Tübingen Interfakultäres Institut für Biochemie Dr. Georg Zocher Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 4 72076 Tuebingen Germany Fon: +49(0)-7071-2973374 Mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.ifib.uni-tuebingen.de