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Insulin costs

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trophywench said:
How is it not safe in the post? If the pens break you lose the insulin, it may stink - and taste - odd - but unless you inject it into someone it can't harm anyone. You could drink a gallon of it (well, figuratively speaking not literally LOL) and come to no harm - apart from the VERY distinctive pong! You could wash in it and ditto.
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It probably has a lot to do with shelf life as that length of time it can only be kept a month so they say if out of the fridge.
 
Royal Mail rules state that you can only post prescription items with the authorisation of a doctor, nurse, or recognised institution. So I suppose it depends whether the collecting body has the necessary status to authorise people to send them their stuff. If they are a recognised charitable body, they may well have got the requisite status. but I wouldn't know.
 
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