Preserving and maintaining the quality and integrity of your data is extremely important. Charles River can help you do this with our broad range of archival services that adhere to the standards mandated by Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) regulations. Our archival facilities and services meet or exceed all regulatory requirements for storage, tracking, and retrieval capabilities.
Charles River has multiple facilities with dedicated archival space protected by several layers of security, such as controlled access via both card key and traditional lock and key, 24-hour security monitoring with automatic fire and police notification, temperature monitoring, fire wall, and automatic sprinklers. Special temperature- and humidity-controlled areas are also available to carefully store your electronic media. Storage conditions include room temperature, refrigerated, and frozen at -20°C or -70°C. Our archival managers conduct an inventory upon receipt, periodic inventory and materials inspections, hard-copy transfer to CD and microform, microform printing, and pick-up and delivery services for both short-term and long-term storage.
Archival Materials
- Microscope slides
- Paraffin/plastic blocks
- Magnetically encoded data or computer disks
- Microforms
- Business records
- Additional sources of data include test articles, medical records, and electronic media