[Taxacom] Problems with Express Courier International?

[Robin Leech]

Has it occurred to anyone to suggest that Customs or whatever agency
may open the package, but PLEASE, do not X-ray, bombard with
destructive rays?
Put on the outside, "FOR DNA RESEARCH AND STUDIES" -
anything that triggers the checking people to something else?
Robin

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Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Problems with Express Courier International?


> 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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