5mL EDTA tubes and shipping?

[Brandon Galbraith]

Has anyone had experience purchasing 5mL EDTA tubes combined with boxes for shipping? Looking for packing to securely ship two tubes at a time in a protected fashion (samples are being taken for genome sequencing).

Thanks!

Brandon

[Nathan McCorkle]

EDTA as in Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid? I haven't heard of EDTA
tubes, Falcon is a name brand of different plastic tubes and "orange
cap tube" are larger too and work in centrifuges.

Maybe these work:
http://www.amazon.com/Falcon-Polystyrene-Round-Bottom-Tubes/dp/B004YXXF4W
https://www.pulmolab.com/transportvial5mlwithcaps1000cs-p-197.html?gclid=CPbGjPnoyLcCFQ1xQgodiBAAJA

5mL is a size I haven't seen much of, maybe 2.0mL or 15mL would work?
http://www.usascientific.com/tubesandcuvettes.aspx

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[SC]

It sounds like you're trying to ship glass tubed with EDTA preservative, is that right?  Delicate glass items can simply be wrapped in bubble wrap and put into a box.  Or were you looking for more professional-lloking packing boxes?

[Ravasz]

EDTA itself is best shipped as a powder in a plastic container.

I'm also guessing you want to ship a DNA sample in some solution with EDTA added for stability. In that case use a plastic tube instead of glass. Much better for transport.

Also, a DNA sample should very rarely be 5ml, it's often a lot less (it depends on your setup though) maybe an 0.2 or 1.5ml safe-lock eppendorf tube would suffice? - that is what I use at least, and that's the kind of "gold standard" used everywhere:

 http://www.eppendorf.com/int/index.php?sitemap=2.1&action=products&contentid=1&catalognode=9775&productpage=1