Ambient Advantage for Greener Shipping

We prioritize ambient shipping whenever possible, eliminating the need for coolers, dry ice, and gel ice.

By adopting ambient shipping solutions, we aim to minimize the need for refrigeration or controlled temperature environments during transportation, offering numerous benefits for both our customers and the environment. Benefits include reduced energy consumption, lower emissions from transport, reduced packaging costs, and increased operational efficiency. Our ambient shipping approach for Invitrogen antibodies aligns with our commitment to deliver sustainable solutions without compromising product safety or efficacy.

Ambient shipping of Invitrogen antibodies

Expect to receive more of your Invitrogen antibodies shipped at ambient temperature, reducing the adverse environmental impact of shipping products at cold temperatures.

We are also excited to introduce a paper-based and recyclable padded paper pouch for antibodies shipments, offering improved sustainability benefits while ensuring the safe and secure delivery of antibodies.

Through rigorous temperature stability testing, including broad immunoassay validation, we have demonstrated that antibody products shipped at ambient temperature perform identically to those shipped with cold-chain conditions and maintain long-term stability.

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Protecting your antibodies: our validation process

To ensure the efficacy of this new shipping approach, our testing team at Thermo Fisher tested multiple lots of antibodies and subjected them to rigorous validation, allowing for comprehensive evaluation and analysis.

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Reducing environmental impacts

By eliminating the use of cold gel packs and coolers for shipping our antibodies products, we decrease packaging, thereby reducing waste and emissions during transport.

This change in shipping method has the potential to eliminate more than 98,000 kg of paper and 200,000 kg of gel ice packs and reduce emissions by approximately 500 metric tons of CO₂ equivalents (MTCO₂e) per year.

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Additional selected products that now ship ambient

AmpliTaq Gold 360

Applied Biosystems AmpliTaq Gold 360 and AmpliTaq 360 DNA Polymerases amplify a wide range of DNA contexts. Heat activates AmpliTaq Gold 360 DNA Polymerase, resulting in highly specific, robust PCR amplification. The ionic strength and the pH of AmpliTaq Gold 360 Master Mix are optimized for use with the AmpliTaq Gold 360 DNA Polymerase enzyme.

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Sustainability impact: These products now ship at ambient temperature rather than cold chain, eliminating the need for dry and gel ice as well as expandable polystyrene (EPS) foam coolers. Our functional and analytical testing demonstrated that shipping these products at ambient temperatures provides the same product quality as shipping on gel ice, without impacting long-term stability.

Our criteria for designing to reduce environmental impact

We are continually evaluating how we make and deliver our products, and how our customers are using them. We incorporate principles of green chemistry and green engineering into product design.

As a result, our greener products help advance sustainability and improve lab safety by minimizing use of hazardous chemicals, reducing waste and material consumption and increasing energy efficiency.