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Introduction

• Maintain specimen integrity from the doctors office to the laboratory
• Standardize the products you provide to couriers for complete specimen management
• Wide range of temperature specific specimen totes and shipping systems
• Therapak will drop-ship all courier supplies directly to your courier location

CourierSupply.com is a service of Therapak Corporation that provides specialized products and distribution services to assist commercial clinical testing laboratories in managing a supply chain of specimen hold and transport supplies that are purchased and supplied to independent contract couriers. Products may also be purchased directly from Therapak by independent couriers. The key to specimen integrity with independent couriers is to provide them with a standardized group of products that function within the specimen transport requirements for your client testing menu. The courier must be trained according to Standard Operating Procedures provided by the laboratory to use the supplies provided by the laboratory which will result in safe and effective protection of specimens destined for laboratory testing as well as utilizing the temperature control products provided by the laboratory to insure the specimens will be intact for testing as a result of proper temperature preservation while in contract courier custody.

CourierSupply.com focuses on offering products that involve specimen management between the client site and the testing laboratory. Once specimens are collected and prepared for courier pick-up at the client site, the specimens are either stored in lock boxes or given to the courier on a daily routine. Typically, clients know the appointed couriers for their area based on the laboratory advising which courier they should use for specimen transport to the laboratory. At the time of pick-up, clients are either instructed to contact the laboratory to arrange a pick-up or contact the courier directly.

Once these logistics are arranged, there are special instructions in place between a client and a laboratory involving how the specimens should be handled prior to pick-up. If the samples are to be stored in a lock box for after hours pick-up by the courier, laboratories must supply lock boxes to the clients. CourierSupply.com offers a range of lock boxes for this purpose.

Once the courier representative arrives at the site, depending on the temperature requirements of the specimens being picked-up, there are many factors that could influence specimen integrity. The duration of time specimens might be sitting in a courier vehicle while other specimens are being picked up at other locations in a metropolitan area is an example. A courier must be outfitted with shoulder-strap specimen totes that provide temperature sensitive insulation for ease of carrying and protection of the specimen integrity. CourierSupply.com provides an assortment of carrying totes to manage these specimen handling tasks.

In storing specimens in a vehicle between client locations, specimen integrity requires suitable vehicle storage products so that the courier representative can offload specimens from the shoulder-strap totes to the vehicle storage totes to maintain the individual requirements for temperature depending on the specimen. CourierSupply.com provides solutions for vehicle storage of specimens that offer ambient, refrigerated and frozen temperature environments. Please visit the CourierSupply.com product listing to review the courier totes section that can help you insure specimen integrity throughout the courier route.

Once specimens are ready to leave the custody of the courier, CourierSupply.com offers a broad range of insulated shipping systems that can be supplied to contract couriers on behalf of the testing laboratory for IATA compliant air transport. The bulk of specimens shipped by air today are considered Biological substance, Category B or Exempt Human Specimen. CourierSupply.com insulated polyurethane coolers and plastic corrugated totes provide safe and compliant shipping systems for Biological substance, Category B or Exempt Human Specimen. There are even systems available to ship a single package comprised of ambient, refrigerated and frozen specimens in one tote. Please refer to the CourierSupply.com product listing for more details on these and other courier shipping systems.

In summary, Therapak's CourierSupply service will help you equip your nationwide contract courier network with a standardized range of products that will guide the chain of custody for specimen integrity from your client site to your testing laboratory. Many of these durable products are reusable within these programs. Please consult with Therapak for more information on product selection to suit your courier transport activity including our new specimen tracking concepts that reduces the risk of losing specimens between pick-up and delivery. Contact us at info@couriersupply.com or call 626-599-9952.