[Taxacom] Problems with Express Courier International?

[bti at dsmz.de]

This is not quite true. Those of us working with microorganisms  
regularly ship living or otherwise viable material, as well as DNA.  
There are international regulations dealing with the shipment of such  
material, as well as a variety of national import/export regulations.  
If one conforms and materials are properly, packaged and declared  
there are usually no/few problems. The link given clearly states what  
type of "biological material" they are talking about. The original  
posting also refers to insects and one could well imagine that  
irradiation of dead plant or animal material is meant to destroy any  
potential pathogens that the material should not be carrying.

Brian

Quoting Heok Hee Ng <heokhee at nus.edu.sg>:

> Nicholas,
>
> I believe the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service regularly  
> irradiates biological material with gamma radiation.  An example can  
> be seen at  
> https://www.adelaide.edu.au/acad/images/Import%20Conditions%20Database%20-%20ICON%20-%20AQIS.pdf  
> .
> They do it for material entering Australia and I presume they would  
> do it for material exiting Australia as well.
>
> HH
> ––––––––––
> Heok Hee Ng
> Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research
> Department of Biological Sciences
> National University of Singapore
> 6 Science Drive 2 #03-01
> Singapore 117546
>
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