[NHCOLL-L:3038] RE: shipping in propylene glycol

[Bentley, Andrew Charles]

Doug

I just checked Fisher (not the cheapest by any means) and they are selling it for about $100 a liter!!!!  Even with our discount that negates any benefit it may have due to cost...

Andy

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Andy Bentley
Ichthyology Collection Manager
University of Kansas
Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center
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1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561
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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Yanega [mailto:dyanega at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:22 AM
To: permit-l at si-listserv.si.edu; NHCOLL-L at lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: shipping in propylene glycol

Thanks to those who responded so quickly to my inquiry - it does seem 
pretty definitive that PG should be fine for shipping specimens, even 
if not 100% effective for long-term DNA preservation, and the extra 
labor (draining off EtOH and replacing with PG at the shipper's end, 
and rinsing off the PG and replacing with EtOH at the receiver's end) 
may certainly outweigh the MAJOR difficulties in using EtOH for 
shipping.

Now comes the important follow-up: what are the best and cheapest 
sources of bulk PG?

Thanks,
-- 

Doug Yanega        /Dept. of Entomology         /Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0314
phone: (951) 827-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
              http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html
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