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Air
freight or air cargo of temperature sensitive or
temperature controlled pharmaceuticals - Healthcare
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(+2°C
to +8°C) or (0°C to +25°C) or (+15°C to
+25°C) |
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We
calculate the required insulation
quality for your shipment /
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Temperature
sensitive or temperature controlled pharmaceutical
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You
would not really think about it, but there are a lot
of pharmaceutical products which are temperature
sensitive and need to be transported or stored in a
temperature controlled environment. These temperature
sensitive pharmaceuticals will lose their quality if
the temperature limits, low or high, are not
respected. The two biggest pharmaceutical product
groups which are temperature sensitive are the chilled
goods with temperature limits (+2°C to +8°C) and the
ambient group with temperature limits (+15°C to +25°C).
This last group did not need to be temperature
controlled in the past but more and more countries are
classifying this ambient group as a temperature
sensitive group which need te be temperature
controlled within (+15°C to +25°C) temperature
limits. There are also other pharmaceutical products
with temperature limits of (0°C to +25°C) and deep
frozen pharmaceuticals.
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Challenge
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The
challenge in the temperature controlled pharmaceutical
industry is to keep the temperature of the product within
its temperature limits through the total transport or
logistics known as the supply chain or cold chain. This
means that all the actors within the cold chain such as
the producers, distribution centers, resellers, transport
companies, forwarders, airline and sea freight companies,
etc… need to take the necessary measurements to keep the
temperature within its limits. This is not an easy task,
especially when multiple actors are active within the cold
chain or when different products with different
temperatures are distributed through the same cold chain. |
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Air
freight of temperature sensitive or
temperature controlled pharmaceuticals |
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The
challenge becomes even greater when temperature sensitive
pharmaceuticals are transported in extreme transport
conditions as in air freight or sea freight. When these
types of transports are used extreme external temperature
conditions will appear which will have a bigger impact on
the product temperature. Also the number of actors in the
cold chain will increase. Forwarders, airliners, freight
handling agents, etc… are active which increases the
possible CCP’s “Critical control Points” in the cold
chain where the product temperature can fluctuate. Below
an overview is shown of the possible actors when an air
freight transport is used. |
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Above
is shown an example of a pallet with temperature sensitive
pharmaceuticals in an air freight shipment from the
producer in Brussels to the reseller in Singapore with a
stop and overload in Dubai. The question in all this is
what the temperature of the goods will be at each location
and during the handling at each actor in the cold chain. |
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Conclusion:
keeping or respecting the required temperature limits of
temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals at each actor in the
temperature controlled supply chain or cold chain is not
easy and needs some intense study. There are two ways to
make sure that the required temperatures are kept being an
active cooling technique where the surrounding air is
cooled with a cooler engine or a passive cooling technique
where insulation techniques are used as protection. Also a
combination of both can be used. What all this is and how
it works you can find on the other pages on this website. |
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Pharmaceuticals:
see also
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