25 January 2021
January 2021: A vaccine arrives on the market and a vaccination campaign is launched to give us some hope of escaping this pandemic.
This vaccine has its own special features to guarantee its effectiveness: temperature with tolerances to be respected, and transport in good conditions (no shaking and a bottle kept in an upright position).
Temperature control throughout the supply chain is therefore essential. Vaccines are delivered to hospitals and stored at -80°C. But what next?
Secondly, we hope and would be in a position to demand (as future vaccinees) that the various players in this logistics chain have the knowledge and means to respect the cold chain, right up to the vaccinated person.
Reading this article from La Provence on January 20, 2021, everything suggests that this isn’t really the case, and that this vaccination campaign was launched in haste.
For us, specialists in the cold chain for over 30 years, it’s chilling!
We are well placed to know that it only takes one link in the cold chain to be broken to jeopardize the quality of the product being transported. It’s a pity to invest in upstream resources and impose transportation at -80°C, to equip ourselves with dedicated freezers, only to alter the vaccine’s effectiveness over the last mile…
A heat-sensitive product needs to be kept at a given temperature: transporting it in a household cooler may be appropriate, provided the person using it knows how much cold to store inside. You don’t carry a covid-19 vaccine like a ham-and-butter sandwich to the beach.
Don’t hesitate to call us on 04 90 16 91 19 or 06 73 75 32 79: we manufacture solutions validated to NF S99 700 standards, as well as a wide range of packaging and bags for last-mile transport.
