The hardest part of storing research peptides in the UAE is not the freezer. It is the short window between the courier handing over a parcel and somebody putting it into controlled storage. Gulf ambient conditions are unforgiving of a box left on a loading bay, a reception desk, or the passenger seat of a car crossing between sites. Most storage incidents in this region are receiving incidents wearing a different name, so the practices below start at the door rather than at the fridge.
The receiving window is the actual risk
Decide in advance who signs for material, where they put it, and how long that is allowed to take. If the answer is "whoever is at reception," you do not have a process; you have a habit that will fail on the day the usual person is away. Nominate a receiving officer per site and a deputy, and give them a defined place to move the parcel to immediately. Twenty minutes of indoor ambient exposure is a different proposition in August than it is in January, and your record should reflect that reality rather than assume a temperate default. Practical background sits in shipping and storage and packaging and delivery.
Log before you store, not afterwards
Record the lot identifier, the SKU, the date, the condition of the outer packaging, and the state of any cold-chain material at the moment the box is opened. Doing this before the vials disappear into a shared fridge is the single cheapest control available, because retrospective logging is guesswork and everyone knows it. If the lot on the vial does not match the lot on the paperwork, that is the moment to stop, quarantine, and query it — not three weeks later when the material is half used and the discrepancy is unrecoverable.