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New Standards of Monitoring for the Cold Chain

Without an efficient cold chain the prospects of many products of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries reaching their ultimate destinations in a safe and viable form would be bleak to say the least. Indeed, without an efficient cold chain many invaluable therapeutic products including vaccines, insulins and blood products, such as blood factors for the treatment of haemophilia, simply wouldn't exist. This is because they can be rendered at best useless and at worst harmful if kept, even briefly, outside their specified storage conditions. These conditions are made possible only by the existence of a cold chain linking manufacturer to end user.

The proactive aspect of this is that an ever more efficient cold chain empowers manufacturers not only to maximise the performance of existing products, but also to develop new ones that continually extend performance parameters. This process has in turn stimulated leading designers and manufacturers of cold chain shippers to respond sometimes and often to innovate with ever more efficient products.

This has resulted in the continuous improvement of good distribution practice (GDP). It is a process where the ante is always being upped. This is reflected in ever-increasing legislative demands made by the multiple jurisdictions under which the constantly globalising pharma and biotech industries have to operate. It is inevitable, given the issues surrounding the supply of drugs, that the area is to be regulated by government bodies.


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By Tim Jennings, Sales Manager at Laminar Medica Ltd.
Tim Jennings is the Sales Manager at Laminar Medica Ltd. He has four years' experience in designing cold chain validations and insulated shipping systems.

Prior to managing the sales function at Laminar Medica, Tim worked in engineering design of pharmaceutical plants.

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