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ois20  
#1 Posted : 14 February 2024 18:28:12(UTC)
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ois20

What are your safety practitioners thoughts about this? See link below..

Thorlabs.com - FeedBack

Thorlabs are dispatching complimentary so called ‘Lab snacks’ - interesting title, packaged together with the delivery of laboratory  goods or parts. I assume these travel in vehicles where other dangerous good are transported?!! 

To make matters ‘more juicy’ some of the snacks included in the package appear expired or close to expiry date, little or no label about allergens. Some ‘Good PR’ to avoid disposal costs of products that are due to pass the shelf life by repackaging them as gifts…

Did anyone come across this before? Thanks

Roundtuit  
#2 Posted : 14 February 2024 22:28:55(UTC)
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Roundtuit

Your link is a feedback form indicating either a SPAM post or lack of care in your attempt at raising a concern.

Either way a US firm attempting to ship foodstuffs to the EU/UK with other items should hit a block at customs when not properly declared.

Roundtuit  
#3 Posted : 14 February 2024 22:28:55(UTC)
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Roundtuit

Your link is a feedback form indicating either a SPAM post or lack of care in your attempt at raising a concern.

Either way a US firm attempting to ship foodstuffs to the EU/UK with other items should hit a block at customs when not properly declared.

Roundtuit  
#4 Posted : 14 February 2024 22:35:43(UTC)
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#5 Posted : 14 February 2024 22:35:43(UTC)
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ois20  
#6 Posted : 15 February 2024 12:05:04(UTC)
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ois20

Thank you for the feedback. I have linked their query forms as it included an image of their snacks that are packed and shipped together with their laboratory goods. It seems a scheme that the supplier are proud of and keen to promote. Apologies if this lead to misinterpretation. These are shipped generally from Germany, not the US and certainly pass customs, on weekly basis.

A Kurdziel  
#7 Posted : 15 February 2024 13:38:49(UTC)
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A Kurdziel

You could ask them directly about the things that they are sending. I have checked their web site The mainly supply equipment like lasers and microscopes for lab use. These items are not hazardous as such in transit,  as opposed to reagents or test kits. Are the dates on the packaging Best Before Dates or Use By Dates?  Use by means that the items it likely to have “gone off”  after that date and might pose a risk to people consuming the product.   Best before refers to items that might be a bit stale and less appetising after the posted date. Those items do not pose a significant risk to people eating them. The allergen labelling is only required if the food items (or might contain due to where it’s made) certain specified  allergens.

Of  course nobody should ever be consuming  these items in a lab.  

Such schemes are not unheard off in the lab supplies business. One company arranged so that when you placed orders above a certain value you got a free lab rat- a cuddly toy rat in a lab coat!  

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peter gotch on 15/02/2024(UTC), MikeKelly on 16/02/2024(UTC)
Kate  
#8 Posted : 15 February 2024 19:55:54(UTC)
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Kate

I want the cuddly lab rat.

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A Kurdziel on 16/02/2024(UTC), peter gotch on 16/02/2024(UTC)
A Kurdziel  
#9 Posted : 16 February 2024 11:52:34(UTC)
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A Kurdziel

 Another supplier received so many orders we were able to acquire some Galileo thermometers .  Managed to break mine moving house.

M.cooper.99  
#10 Posted : 16 February 2024 12:49:06(UTC)
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M.cooper.99

A supplier of ours sent us some stress balls shaped like a hard hat. One of mine is on display on my desk, the other was retired after being well used.

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A Kurdziel on 16/02/2024(UTC)
peter gotch  
#11 Posted : 16 February 2024 15:32:09(UTC)
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Kate

You could possibly get a enamel pin of Roland in his lab coat?

Roland Rat (The Scientist) Enamel Metal Pin Badge - New | eBay

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A Kurdziel on 16/02/2024(UTC)
chris42  
#12 Posted : 16 February 2024 16:53:10(UTC)
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chris42

Originally Posted by: peter gotch Go to Quoted Post

Kate

You could possibly get a enamel pin of Roland in his lab coat?

Roland Rat (The Scientist) Enamel Metal Pin Badge - New | eBay

Anyone would think it was Friday

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peter gotch on 16/02/2024(UTC)
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