These instructional pictures are designed to help you to learn and follow best practices for sample integrity, safety and quality.
By respecting these steps, you will be able to learn, improve and optimize their field practices and procedures.
Please contact your customer service representative if you have any questions or would like additional training support.
Why
- Avoid Risks of contamination of the sample during the transport.
- Avoid more cost
- To respond to The Transportation of Dangerous Goods Program
- To have sample integrity and safety condition of your sample
Promote
- Sample integrity
- Safety condition
- Cost
Capella Innovation provided your company with the following items:
- Sterile bag or steriles bottles
- Sheet of custody
To ensure the right shipping, your company must provide the following items:
- Safety glasses
- Steriles gloves
- Scotch tape
- Bubble wraps
- Waterproof ink pen
- Security seal
- Appropriate shipping box (the shipping container must consist of a corrugated cardboard box with an insulating inserted Styrofoam box (1-2 inch. thickness)
- Dry ice (frozen Carbon Dioxide) and Gel Refrigerants (less toxic).
To ensure the quality of your shipment and processing, please follow those steps:
Choose a flat surface to accommodate all your work.
1. Put the long bubble wrap to cover the bottom of the box and let extra bubble wrap extend outside along it.
2. For each sample, fill up the identification. Put company name, product name, lot number, harvest date and shipping date.How to Fill Out a Form Tutorial.
- For the whirl-pack sterile sample, make sure to tightly close the bag.
- For the small plastic bottle, you can put them together in a plastic bag.
- For the glass bottle, you need to put the sample in the bubble wrap, make sure all the bottle’s lids are secured tightly.
- For the big glass amber bottle, like the small glass bottle, you need to wrap them separately with the bubble wrap before putting it in the plastic bag.
- When you finish the box packing, take the time to verify the information.
- Fold the extra bubble wrap on top on the samples. The bottles and samples must not be moving during the transport.
- Put dry ice or gel refrigerants between and on top of your samples.
- For more precaution double the recommended bag, the stable temperature is very important (1°C to 4°C ).
- Do not use ice packs, from our experience, the temperature will raise and the product will be returned without being processed.
- In summer, put double layer, in winter put a simple row.
- Tape the box carefully and place the security seal.
- Do not forget to write your complete address of return and write FOODS SAMPLES on the box.
Reception at Capella Innovation’s Laboratory Site
Please make arrangement with our lab before shipping. Our opening hours are from 8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
For quality purpose your sample will be weighed and the temperature will be taken at the arrival at Capella Innovation’s site before your sample will be processed.
If you’re shipping overnight, make sure our laboratory can receive it, and please call before.
After testing your samples, Capella Innovation will keep them for 30 days in a freezer. After this time your samples will be destroyed.