Medical Use
Thermal pharmaceutical bags are designed to provide a method for pharmacists to supply their customers with a way to transport and protect their medications from extreme outside temperature changes, as well as shocks and light. They have been in use for more than 15 years in Europe by major drug companies to help preserve the cold chain. Vaccines are a good example of temperature sensitive products which need to be kept at the right temperatures from the day it is being manufactured until being injected. Most should be maintained within the recommended temperature range of 2 °C (36 °F) to 8 °C (46 °F). Vaccines are delicate biological substances that can become less effective or destroyed if they are frozen, allowed to get too hot, or exposed to direct sunlight or fluorescent light. According to the World Health Organisation, at least 7% of temperature sensitive medical products suffer significant degradation in potency in transit.
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