Ms. Irwin received a phone call from NCESSE at 8:00 pm yesterday. Earlier that afternoon, ITA informed NCESSE that the climate control in their laboratory failed. They don’t know if the failure was due to the snow storm this week, but because of the storm ITA could not get it repaired rapidly. They therefore had no choice but to reschedule the SSEP STS-134 Fluid/Sample Compatibility Test scheduled to take place today for approximately one week. We now had to determine what to do about our samples. We have three choices:
A) Refrigerate the samples at 4 degrees Celsius until the test can be conducted.
B) Store the samples at room temperature until the test can be conducted.
C) Send new samples by the close of business on January 4th.
At a temperature of 22 degrees C the tilapia eggs will hatch in 5 days. Even if AmeriCulture sent eggs from the harvest of the remaining tanks on today, the eggs would be after the 5 day hatching time table by the time the test was started. AmeriCulture probably won’t be harvesting again until January 6th. At a temperature lower than 20 degrees C the Tilapia eggs will have a high level of mortality. However, the eggs do not need to be alive for the test but do need to still be eggs. Based on this we decided to go with storage at 4 degrees C. We are expecting most if not all of the eggs to die but they will still be eggs and should still have the composition required for the test.
