This typically happens in the US when any label is left on the Dewar that implies it contains liquid nitrogen, i.e. the green diamond label or any indication of previous hazardous shipment. The synchrotron sometimes ships them back wet (and adds these labels) There are special shipment rules and training required in this case.
The shipper should be shipped dry and needs to be labeled “Dry Shipper, Non-Regulated”. SSRL used to have information on this on its SMB user portal but they have updated this and I could not find it recently. Note that in the US shipping a dry shipper that is still full with liquid nitrogen when improperly labeled carries a stiff penalty. Cheers, Eddie Edward Snell Ph.D. President and CEO Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute BioInnovations Chaired Professorship, University at Buffalo, SUNY 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203-1102 hwi.buffalo.edu Phone: (716) 898 8631 Fax: (716) 898 8660 Skype: eddie.snell Email: esn...@hwi.buffalo.edu [cid:image002.png@01D3621F.2C27CB30] Heisenberg was probably here! From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Thomas, Leonard M. Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 4:19 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] sending dewar to synchrotrons To expand, we have been shipping to SSRL, though I don’t think it has anything to do with them. It is being returned by the carrier, FedEx, on the way out. TheFedEx people down here have been very difficult to work with by providing no information. Mostly I am just venting and wanted to see if this is isolated, more widespread then anybody thinks or random. The occasional problem I can see but this is twice in a row so it just got me wondering. Len On Nov 20, 2017, at 2:45 PM, Loll,Patrick <pj...@drexel.edu<mailto:pj...@drexel.edu>> wrote: Ouch. Can you expand on this? E.g, what carrier? What synchrotron? And who returns them—the carrier? We just sent a dewar to APS via FedEx last week, and we had no problems (other than the fact that FedEx didn’t come to pick it up until 7:30 PM…) Cheers, Pat Loll On 20 Nov 2017, at 3:14 PM, Thomas, Leonard M. <lmtho...@ou.edu<mailto:lmtho...@ou.edu>> wrote: Hello All, General inquiry here, I have been sending dewars out to synchrotrons for many years now and all of a sudden we have run into them being returned due to incomplete paper work or hazardous problems. I was just wondering if anyone else had had this happen in the past and what you may have done to overcome it besides sending the dewar out a week yearly in hopes you have time to turn it around. It has been rather frustrating. Len Thomas Leonard Thomas, Ph.D. Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory Oklahoma COBRE in Structural Biology Price Family Foundation Institute of Structural Biology University of Oklahoma Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center 101 Stephenson Parkway Norman, OK 73019-5251 Office: (405)325-1126 lmtho...@ou.edu<mailto:lmtho...@ou.edu> http://structuralbiology.ou.edu/mcl --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick J. Loll, Ph. D. Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Drexel University College of Medicine Room 10-102 New College Building 245 N. 15th St., Mailstop 497 Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192 USA (215) 762-7706 pjl...@gmail.com<mailto:pjl...@gmail.com> pj...@drexel.edu<mailto:pj...@drexel.edu> Leonard Thomas lmtho...@ou.edu<mailto:lmtho...@ou.edu>
