Good Practice Guidance for Cold Storage of Medicines

Pharmacies have a responsibility to supply drugs that are fit for purpose and within the parameters that manufacturers have set. This is where new technology comes into its own – by qualifying protocols and executing them. Documenting the process ensures safety and accurate data and can also highlight any weak links.

Niall Balfour, chief executive officer at Tower Cold Chain, says: “Mass vaccination programmes are the public health achievements of the contemporary world and efficient cold chain management is a key part of this success. The Covid-19 vaccine rollout demanded specialist end-to-end supply chain requirements, from manufacture, storage and transportation to healthcare and pharmacy facilities. With community vaccination centres constructed overnight to cope with demand, an efficient and resilient supply chain which assisted with temperature-controlled technologies became imperative.”

Mr Balfour believes the pandemic highlighted the need for preparedness for distribution, with transport corridors and hub networks becoming a focus for logistics providers.

For specialist packaging providers, innovation played a huge role in meeting the growing trend for smaller shipments after the pandemic, such as direct-to-patient, sample shipment, and last-mile deliveries. “It became clear that the pharmacy market would welcome a smaller solution which offers the same robust, reliable, and reusable benefits, but at a size ideal for manual handling,” Mr Balfour says. “Hence, the Tower KTEvolution – with its patent pending design striking the optimum balance between high performance, durability, and optimised weight.”

The KTEvolution is said to be ideal for the transportation of life science products, including vaccines, diagnostic kits, biopharmaceuticals, samples and solutions, clinical trial kits and any other product requiring a stable temperature environment for transportation.

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