Hello all,

The Integrated Pest Management Working Group (Treatment subgroup) is looking for
examples of freezer specifications from various institutions. Our hope is to
compile these specifications and post them on the www.museumpests.net website as a
resource for institutions looking into purchasing freezers to treat infestations. This information
would accompany fact sheets already posted about recommendations and procedures
for low temperature treatments, which can be found on the
http://museumpests.net/tools/treatments.htm (along with fact sheets for other
types of treatments).

If your institution has a freezer you are happy with (or
if you have cautionary tales of freezers you have not been happy with) it would
be enormously helpful if you can find the time to put together the basic specs.
We can edit and compile them for posting. We won’t use the name of your
institution unless you give us permission but your location will be helpful
information – i.e. country, and if US what region.

Here is the basic information we are looking for, based
on the recommended minimum temperature at 20 degrees below 0 Celsius,
maintained constantly so that cycling (as in “frost-free” freezers) does not
bring freezer temperature above that.

- Type – i.e. chest freezer, walk-in
- Brand
- Model
- Size
- Price
- Year purchased
- Brief description of capabilities – lowest temperature
capable of reaching and maintaining
- Have you had adjustments made to the freezer so that it
can maintain adequate low temperature?
- How do you monitor the temperature? Are you doing any
independent check of the temperature (e.g. dataloggers) and if so what
equipment are you using?
- Comments on maintenance and any other related
experiences

An example can be found on http://museumpests.net/tools/treatments.htm
in the posted document “Pest Treatment
Case Study: Low Temperature Pest Management Treatment at the Smithsonian
National Museum of the American Indian “

Please send your information to me at the address below.
Thanks very much!
Emily (chair, IPM Working Group Treatments subgroup)


Emily  Kaplan
Conservator
National Museum of the American Indian
Cultural Resources Center
4220 Silver Hill Rd
Suitland MD 20746
301.238.1418
fax 301.238.3201
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