A pharmaceutical wholesaler's product may wait at a transfer hub for at most 72 hours. Article 7 of the Turkish Regulation on Pharmaceutical Warehouses makes this conditional on every measure on storage conditions being in place. The period is written for medicinal products and active substances and does not extend to food transfers.
| Article | What it requires |
|---|---|
| 4/1(a) and 7/1 | At most 72 hours, if the measures are in place |
| 7/2 | Keep waiting times to a minimum and record them |
| 7/3 | Record and keep temperature and humidity values |
| 7/5 | Hold special-condition products under the supplier's shipment validation (polystyrene boxes, ice packs, data logger placement) |
| 18/9 | Keep records for 5 years at the site |
The Regulation does not say whether, when part of a pallet leaves on the evening van and the rest waits for the next round, the clock runs from first entry or from last movement. Settle it with the service provider in the contract on duties and responsibilities that Article 19 requires.
When the same waiting window happens on your own dock, the notes under the cold chain at a distribution centre work through these questions one by one.
Under the fifth paragraph of Article 7, the sheet describing how the package is set up (number of ice packs, logger position, how often the lid may open) should travel with the load. The sixth paragraph settles responsibility: using a transfer hub's services does not remove the wholesaler's responsibility for product quality.
