[NHCOLL-L:3368] irradiating

[Gregory Watkins-Colwell]

I haven't heard anything about DHL or UPS or anybody else irradiating 
packages in a while.  I was wondering if anyone had any updates on 
this.  The question was asked around here recently if we should start 
labelling boxes as natural history specimens and requesting that they 
not be irradiated.

I suppose an even harder question is, what are other countries 
doing?  It might be that the U.S. won't zap a box of tissues being 
exported, but will another country zap that box on import?

Greg


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