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How to test a pharmacy warehouse outage plan
21 November 2022
How to test a pharmacy warehouse outage plan

Test the generator together with power transfer, monitoring, alarms, and records.

Pharmaceutical cold chain
Measure six-month refrigeration maintenance costs
19 November 2022
Measure six-month refrigeration maintenance costs

Do not assume the effect of delayed service. Match six months of service, runtime, fuel and trip records for each vehicle.

Fleet and refrigeration units
How cold is dry ice?
14 November 2022
How cold is dry ice?

Dry ice is -78.5 °C at normal pressure and turns straight into gas without melting, so it needs a barrier from the product and a vented container.

Dry ice
Holding the cold on a food truck and in mobile sales
10 November 2022
Holding the cold on a food truck and in mobile sales

Split the day's stock into a working volume and a closed reserve, keep the reserve in a pre-chilled insulated container, and tie every reading to the food.

Containers and equipment
When a refrigeration unit is in service: how to choose a load contingency
7 November 2022
When a refrigeration unit is in service: how to choose a load contingency

Compare rental, an alternate route or insulated containers against the same conditions. Verify product suitability and actual service time in records.

Fleet and refrigeration units
The first five minutes after a cooling-unit fault code
3 November 2022
The first five minutes after a cooling-unit fault code

Do not guess from the code. Check vehicle and unit safety, product condition, independent records, the model manual and validated backup capacity first.

Fleet and refrigeration units
A dispatch plan for a dry-ice supply interruption
25 October 2022
A dispatch plan for a dry-ice supply interruption

Classify shipments by product requirements, approved fallback coolant and delivery window.

Dry ice
How to write an excursion investigation
24 October 2022
How to write an excursion investigation

A good investigation closes three questions: what happened, what happened to the product, and what was done so it does not repeat. Without the third the file stays open.

Pharmaceutical cold chain
Administrative consequences of a cold chain failure
23 October 2022
Administrative consequences of a cold chain failure

A broken cold chain can bring an administrative fine under Law 5996; what happens to the product is a separate quality decision.

Regulations and standards
How to set a cold-chain alarm threshold
18 October 2022
How to set a cold-chain alarm threshold

Define product conditions, sensor uncertainty and the response owner together.

Pharmaceutical cold chain
What to do when meat-shipment documents are missing
14 October 2022
What to do when meat-shipment documents are missing

Do not assume the outcome of missing paperwork; safeguard the shipment and verify the applicable process with the authority.

Regulations and standards
How to measure dry-ice needs on summer routes
13 October 2022
How to measure dry-ice needs on summer routes

Do not add a fixed percentage to winter quantities. Measure dry-ice mass, vehicle environment and product temperature on comparable loads and routes.

Dry ice
An emergency medicine transport plan for on-call teams
27 September 2022
An emergency medicine transport plan for on-call teams

Under time pressure, rely on product instructions, ready equipment and an assigned decision owner.

Pharmaceutical cold chain
Protecting goods from freezing and chilling injury in winter
23 September 2022
Protecting goods from freezing and chilling injury in winter

Check product-specific lower limits and plan the route, waiting areas and in-load measurements together.

Risk and emergencies
The cold store has failed: a plan to save the product
17 September 2022
The cold store has failed: a plan to save the product

When a store stops, the hold time is measured, the order of the first half hour is written down and so is the place the product moves to. Product holds many times more heat than the air in the same room, and that sets the time.

Risk and emergencies
Managing a medicine shipment held at customs
7 September 2022
Managing a medicine shipment held at customs

Do not assume a fixed hold time. Define customs process, documents, monitoring and quality decisions in the shipment plan.

Pharmaceutical cold chain