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May I add a little note: "Dewar" reads as a destructive device. "Thermos" reads as thermos, which the dewar is except for no relation to the Thermos trademark. Good luck, Boris Brumshtein ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Felix Frolow <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] What to put on Custom Declaration for shipped samples? To: [log in to unmask] Jim, dottore... Starting back traveling to synchrotrons in the beginning of 80 I say, do not volunteer information, more magic words you say, more papers you fetch, more faxes you send in advance more they will torture you. You do not need custom declaration anywhere (at least in Europe), in states I would drive We have send a fax with a full description of Polaroid 3000ASA in 1992 in Heathrow, and they ( security, I was ready to take them apart) burn these sensitive films on the purpose by X-rays on our way to Photon Factory. Many years after that in 2008, one of these people (I have very good memory) again in Heathrow told me - you have two choices - either irradiation or invasive check, and we will not be gentle. I choose irradiation. I will met him next time in a bar or a pub and will take very nice care of him :-) DO NOT VOLUNTEER INFORMATION, IT WILL BE AGAINST YOU…. If it is written non-infectious, they will read infectious, you will write non-hazardous - they will read hazardous, you will say lysozyme - they will read anthrax…. And the most terrible thing for you will be if they will apply frontal check, not selection which you may snick, but total check. Just go forward, take another person with you, takes doubles, go to different check-in points, system is working sporadically, increase your chance by multiplication FF Dr Felix Frolow Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel Acta Crystallographica F, co-editor e-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: ++972-3640-8723 Fax: ++972-3640-9407 Cellular: 0547 459 608 On Nov 6, 2012, at 22:25 , Jim Pflugrath <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I was asked by our shipping folks what we should put on the Customs Declaration so that samples that we ship or that are shipped to us (in dewars, styrofoam boxes, and/or padded envelopes) would not be held up in Customs. > > I had them put: > > "Scientific samples of less than 1 mg of non-infectious, non-hazardous protein. No health hazard." > > but it has been so long that I have had to do so. I suppose I could name the exact protein, (e.g. hen egg white lysozyme), but maybe that is not a good idea. > > What wording do folks put on these forms nowadays? What works? Do I need to put the buffer components? > > Thanks for responses. > > Jim