Many U.S. state regulations for pharmacies recommend monitoring prescription refrigerators and freezers twice per day, manually. This entails, a pharmacist reading a thermometer inside a fridge or freezer and recording it on a paper log, at the beginning and the end of the day. These daily logs are kept in files at the pharmacy for review during inspections.
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Many pharmacies, medical offices, and health clinics manually monitor temperature twice per day using a paper log. If the temperature at the time of the reading is within the desired range, 36°F - 46°F (2°C - 8°C) for refrigerators, -50°C - -15°C (-58°F - +5°F) for freezers, no action is taken.
Remote Monitoring is making its way into all aspects of business. None is more important than ensuring the quality and safety of refrigerated medications.
At the end of June 2016, the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) released an updated Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit. Among the most interesting changes is the new recommended Fahrenheit temperature range for refrigerated vaccines. The Fahrenheit temperature range for refrigerated vaccines was updated from 35°F - 46°F to 36°F - 46°F. The Celsius temperature range remains unchanged: 2°C - 8°C.
With temperatures rising, so does the opportunity to experience a power failure. For most of us, a power outage is a sudden and temporary inconvenience that leaves us without our beloved gadgets and internet...until you cell battery dies. But for vaccine storage, it's clear that a power outage brings larger and more troublesome obstacles.
The FDA recently released its final FSMA rule, which applies specifically to food transportation. FSMA compliance concerns many aspects of food production, transportation of that food being one of them. While many food safety professionals have implemented HACCP or similar plans, they’ll need to review their current plans to ensure they comply with FSMA.
