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2004 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaccination supplies can be rendered useless if their temperature rises above the permitted maximum. MEDICASE has developed an intelligent transit box that ensures tight temperature control and that has a built-in data logger to provide a temperature audit trail.
Research shows that a surprising proportion of medical supplies and samples become damaged during transit. This represents a serious problem both for supplier and end users. A customer recently received a consignment of vaccinations worth millions of euros, which turned out to be denatured. The damage arose because the plane carrying the consignment had had to wait a long time on the runway, and this had caused an unacceptable rise in temperature.
"It doesn't take long for a vaccine to become useless if the ambient temperature rises to 20-25 degrees C," explained Colin Rickson of Kryotrans, and head of MEDICASE exploitation. "The conventional solution is to use packaging made from expanded polystyrene and cardboard, but these can only maintain the temperature for a limited period and are difficult to dispose of."
Part of the problem with conventional packaging is that the end user can't be certain ...