Receiving and storing lyophilized research material
What to do in the first hour after a delivery arrives, and why the answer is about your protocol rather than ours.
Lyophilized material is shipped as a dry solid in a sealed vial. The most useful things you can do on arrival are administrative rather than technical, and they take a few minutes.
Check the shipment against the order before anything is unpacked further: the product, the option code, the strength, the pack count. Record the batch identifier from the vial or the outer packaging in your own log at this point, while the packaging is still in front of you. Reconstructing it later is far harder than it sounds.
Inspect the vials for damage to the seal or the container, and photograph anything that looks wrong before handling it further. If something arrived damaged or does not match the order, contact us with the order number and those photographs. That is a far stronger starting point than a description after the fact.
Storage conditions should come from your own protocol and from the documentation supplied with the batch, not from a general article. Requirements vary by material and by how long you intend to hold it, and a single recommendation published on a website would be wrong for some of the catalog.
This site does not publish preparation, reconstitution or handling-for-use procedures for any product, and it will not supply them on request. Those belong to the protocol of the laboratory doing the work, which is the only place with the context to set them.