How to Ship Lab Samples Safely: A Practical Guide
September 13, 2026
I once inherited a collaboration where every shipment arrived fine for months, until one August week when three packages of plasma samples sat on a loading…
I once inherited a collaboration where every shipment arrived fine for months, until one August week when three packages of plasma samples sat on a loading…
A visiting professor once told me he only buys the most expensive vials because “cheap glass cost him a paper”. Maybe it did.
A customer once sent us a photo of a bent autosampler needle next to a tray of 9 mm vials and asked what he had done wrong.
Last quarter I walked past a bench where someone had balanced a full tray of used acetonitrile vials next to the sink “for a minute”.
I once spent a full afternoon tracing a weird potassium result back to a blood collection tube. Not the analyzer, not the method, not the phlebotomist.
Most people spend hours choosing an HPLC column and about ninety seconds choosing the bottle that feeds it.
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