As we all know, as a special item, the safety and quality of medical products are related to everyone's health and directly affect people's livelihood and social stability. The safety of pharmaceuticals lies not only in the production process, but also in strictly controlling the logistics of the pharmaceutical cold chain. But what exactly is the so-called cold chain logistics of medicine? What are the points to note?
Pharmaceutical cold chain logistics refers to the refrigerated pharmaceutical transportation system engineering for the purpose of national disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, etc., to ensure that pharmaceutical products are shipped from the factory, storage, transportation, distribution, sales, and all links of the entire chain to consumers. It is always in a specific temperature range to escort pharmaceutical products and ensure their quality and safety.
To ensure the "uninterrupted chain" of pharmaceutical cold chain logistics, it is necessary to ensure the information sharing and full-process temperature control of the circulation of pharmaceuticals, so as to realize the full-process visualization and trace-ability. Among them, refrigerated trucks, Cold Chain Cooler Box and temperature and humidity recorders are the three major points that cannot be ignored in the medical cold chain logistics.
1. Medical refrigerated truck
A refrigerated vehicle refers to a vehicle with an insulated compartment and a refrigeration device. Among them, the structure of medical refrigerated vehicles is basically the same as that of ordinary refrigerated vehicles such as food and dairy products. They are all composed of the running part of the special vehicle chassis, the thermal insulation body, the refrigeration unit and the temperature monitor in the cabin. It has automatic temperature control and display. Store and read temperature monitoring data, remote and local real-time alarms for refrigeration system failures.
2.Cold Chain Cooler Box
The cold chain cooler box is an indispensable professional equipment for refrigerating pharmaceutical products in the medical industry. It is mainly used for the preservation and transportation of medicines, reagents, vaccines, blood, etc., and the demand for products is characterized by large numbers, diversity and continuity. As a device for transporting and storing biological products at special temperatures, medical refrigerators have extremely high requirements for the temperature and humidity data in the box. The cold chain cooler box adopts the cooling method of ice gel pack and ice box. The cold storage ice gel pack or ice box in the box absorbs heat to resist the heat transmitted into the box from the outside, so that the temperature inside the box is constant within a range, such as freezing (- 18°C), refrigerated (2-8°C)), cool (0-20°C)), etc., in line with national drug regulatory laws and regulations. During specific use, multiple cooler box may be used to transport medicines. Multiple stacks can be stacked together, and the raised pedals on the bottom of the box are buckled in the grooves on the lid, which can save space and prevent sliding during transportation。
3.Temperature and humidity data logger
In the process of cold chain logistics and transportation, temperature and humidity have a great impact on pharmaceutical products. Higher or lower than the standard temperature and humidity of the pharmaceutical products themselves will affect their quality and safety. Among them, temperature-sensitive drugs are also likely to cause drug denaturation and failure.With the increasing requirements for real-time monitoring of temperature and humidity in my country's medical cold chain transportation, temperature and humidity data logger also play an irreplaceable role. During transportation, the temperature and humidity data logger can automatically monitor and record the temperature and humidity in real time, which can effectively prevent the risk of "chain-broken" in cold chain transportation, ensure the quality of pharmaceutical products to the greatest extent, and reduce losses
The item of category |
Required storage temperature |
Vaccine, Drugs |
0~8℃ |
Pharmaceuticals,biological products |
+2℃ ~8℃ |
Blood |
+5℃ ~1℃ |
Plasma, biological materials, vaccines, reagents, strains, etc. |
-20℃ ~-30℃ |
Placenta, semen, stem cells, plasma, bone marrow, biological products |
-30℃ ~-80℃ |
In the process of cold chain transportation, the use of temperature and humidity data logger can monitor the temperature throughout the logistics process to ensure the temperature. It can also provide data recording, over-standard alarm and report services to ensure that the transported goods can be smoothly accepted by customers, showing the logistics enterprise's .The ability to control temperature and humidity improves the competitiveness of enterprises.
In the future, driven by multiple factors such as the in-depth advancement and gradual implementation of the national medical reform policy, the intensified population aging phenomenon and the increasing emphasis on health concepts, the pharmaceutical industry market will continue to expand, and the demand for pharmaceutical cold chain logistics will continue to increase. , Refrigerators and temperature and humidity recorders and other equipment markets are promising, and will develop in a more standardized, more standard, and smarter direction.