Vaccine Monitoring
Vaccine Temperature Monitoring for Safety, Integrity and Efficacy
Continuous Vaccine Monitoring Systems
Vaccine temperature monitoring is an essential process required to ensure safety and efficacy. Achieved by placing data loggers in your fridges and storage areas, vaccine temperature monitoring will not only protect therapeutic power but also mitigate microbial contamination.
Withnell Sensors offer various data loggers which are ideal for vaccine temperature monitoring. In particular, data loggers with extended PRTs make the most suitable solution for vaccines due to their expansive temperature range capabilities. This often varies from -200 to +200°C.
Maintaining proper temperature control with the storage or transportation of vaccines is crucial, particularly due to the sensitivity of the biological components of the vaccine. If temperature deviates outside of the proper specified ranges (as declared by pharmaceutical regulatory affairs and bodies) then the vaccine can become ineffective and lose its efficacy.
In order to uphold regulatory standards, set out by organisations such as WHO/FDA/MHRA and others, vaccine temperature monitoring is a necessity. Proper monitoring ensures compliance with these global standards and the upkeep of public health standards.
Vaccine Monitoring & Waste Mitigation
Why is vaccine temperature monitoring important?
Vaccines will often need to be transported across long distances, fulfilling the cold chain distribution network. From manufacturing sites to distributors and eventually the vaccination centre, during this transit, the efficacy and safety of the vaccine must remain compliant. To avoid degradation, the temperature is monitored throughout transportation.
Proper storage conditions must always be maintained at the vaccination site up until the moment they are administered to patients. Monitoring of the storage conditions, including refrigerators and freezers, is an essential phase of the preparation of a vaccine. The conditions must be logged prior to any vaccine being taken out for use.
Vaccines are an expensive medical resource, which is why they should never be wasted. We have, however, see n more vaccine waste in recent years with conditional parameters often being the biggest cause of this. By ensuring that vaccines are stored and transported in precise conditions, there is less risk of spoilage or loss, this saves money and valuable medical resources.
Vaccine Cold Chain Management
Vaccine Monitoring at Every Stage
There are three core aspects of vaccine temperature monitoring, storage, transport and clinics. The distribution of vaccines across this chain is vital for public health, however, their temperature, humidity and other crucial parameters must be monitored closely to ensure the safety of administration. Depending on your stage of vaccine temperature monitoring, these features are often paramount:
Storage facilities - automated logging with a remote monitoring system that allows for real-time and instantaneous alerts.
Transportation - consistent and accurate monitoring regardless of signals and GPS location, to ensure a constant traceable log of transit data
Clinic - historical log of data records to ensure that audits can be conducted with ease and temperature is read prior to administration
