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Figure 7

From: Shipping blood to a central laboratory in multicenter clinical trials: effect of ambient temperature on specimen temperature, and effects of temperature on mononuclear cell yield, viability and immunologic function

Figure 7

Temperature performance test of the JVI Control Temp shipping container. Five vials, filled with water conditioned at 20°C, were suspended inside the foam vial holder and placed inside the plastic clamshell plastic box fitted with small foam pads. Two of the vials each had a T thermocouple taped to it. The clamshell package was put inside the insulated corrugated cardboard box in which two 12 oz. Control Temp gel packs conditioned at 20°C were also placed inside and taped shut. The shipping container was set inside a 45°C chamber for forty-five hours and the internal package temperature recorded as described in Methods. The red line indicates the external temperature of the chamber. The blue line represents the average internal temperature of the shipping container obtained from duplicate temperature probes.

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