July 9, 2008 - Going Into The Cold: Rugged Devices For A Frigid World
Cold Chain solutions require a variety of technologies and supporting software applications, including sensors, data transfer over wireless networks, real time logging and analysis, unique product identification, workforce mobile computing systems, etc. It is beyond the scope of this paper to focus on all of these components. Rather, this paper will focus on the needs of the mobile computing environment for the Cold Chain workforce. Courtesy Data Collection Online.
July 2, 2008 - Chilled Foods: A Comprehensive Guide; Third Edition
The key requirements for chilled food products are good quality and microbiological safety at the point of consumption. The first edition of Chilled foods quickly established itself as the standard work on these issues. This major new edition strengthens that reputation, with extensively revised and expanded coverage (including more than ten new chapters) and significant participation from those in the chilled food industry to increase the publication’s relevance to practitioners. Courtesy BusinessWire.
June 2008 - Thermally Protective Packaging: Five Essentials of Gel Refrigerant Design and Specification
Temperature-controlled packaging is used throughout many industries to protect temperature-sensitive products. Designing such packaging requires a level of analysis as detailed as any other type of shipping package. Items to consider include product design requirements, route and destination, and the anticipated hazards that compromise product safety and efficacy. Courtesy Pharmaceutical and Medical Packaging News.
May 27, 2008 - Protective Packaging
Protective packaging demand is expected to exceed $5 billion in 2012, driven by manufacturing growth and the proliferation of Internet commerce. These factors will fuel demand for cost-effective packaging used in the protection of goods from shock, vibration, abrasion and other damaging effects of shipping and handling. Manufacturing markets for protective packaging will remain dominant, but non-manufacturing markets will rise more rapidly, stimulated by escalating Internet and catalog sales as consumers increasingly shop at home. Courtesy ReportLinker.com
May 2008 - Complying with Track and Trace
Biogen Idec blazes a path to California compliance. Courtesy of Contract Pharma.
May 2008 - Responding to a Warning Letter: Part 2
Part 2 of 2 on what to do when the FDA sends you a letter. Courtesy of Contract Pharma.
April 2008 - Anatomy of a Warning Letter: Part 1
Part 1 of 2 on what to do when the FDA sends you a letter. Courtesy of Contract Pharma.
January 2008 - The Epicenter of Cold Chain Management
2007 was a year of milestones in the world of pharmaceutical cold chain management practices, setting the stage for additional guidance, and regulatory updates with respect to temperature control during storage and distribution.
A significant driver of this change is the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA). Courtesy of ContractPharma.
October 24, 2007 - The Cold Chain
Cold chain - A critically important, but little known, concept for global health care – the global network of temperature controlled vehicles and storage sites that is reliably linked together and monitored to assure protection against the negative effects of heat. Courtesy of Health Commentary.
2007 - Canada's National Vaccine Storage and Handling Guidelines for Immunization Providers
2005 - Manual on the management, maintenance and use of blood cold chain equipment by the WHO
2002 - The Blood Cold Chain
Guide to the
selection and procurement
of equipment and
accessories by the WHO
1998 - Safe vaccine handling, cold chain and immunizations
A manual for the Newly Independent States. Based on the “Cold Chain Training Manual for Health Workers” by the WHO