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Can shipping prescription medications at temps over 90 degrees hurt them?
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Wiki User
March 24, 2009 9:48PM
Unless the medications needed refrigeration to begin with, or are suppositories, temporary environmental conditions at this range probably do not compromise the effectiveness or stability of most pharmaceuticals.
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