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Home » Temperature Controlled Packaging

Temperature Controlled Packaging

COVID Ready and Temperature Packing System range

Temperature Packing Systems (TPS) are used to maintain a constant temperature around pharmaceuticals during transportation.  The flexibility of the TPS allows pharmaceuticals to be sent across Australia and internationally through all modes of transport.  These include delivery vans, trains, trucks and planes.

CoolPac has a variety of TPS product ranges that are suited for different scenarios.

  • smaller courier shippers,
  • larger bulk shippers,
  • single-use shippers,
  • long term industrial containers
  • Long-lasting systems and
  • shorter longevity systems
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Multi-Use Urethane TPS

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Single-Use Styrene TPS

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Olivo Industrial TPS

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Elements of a Temperature Packaging System

TPS are composed of two elements:

  1. Insulated container
  2. Refrigerant

The insulated box is used as a barrier to the ingress of heat into the packaging system from the surrounding environment.

The refrigerant is conditioned at a specific temperature before packing out the system.  Its purpose is to cool the internal space of the insulated container. Both elements provide the thermal longevity needed to keep the medicines “cool” for sufficient time for the transportation to be completed.

Qualification of a Temperature Packaging System

Proper balancing of the insulation, the refrigerant and matching them to the expected ambient environment which the system will be exposed to, is done during a “Qualification Study”.

Like all pharmaceutical systems, the TPS must be qualified to regulatory health standards.  Every country has its own regulation and in Australia these are governed by the TGA and State Health Departments.  Industry guides assist in the harmonising of regulatory approaches.

CoolPac TPS are pre-qualified to Australian and international temperature profiles (International Association of Safe Transit, ISTA) and pharmaceutical qualification approaches (International Association of Pharmaceutical Engineers, ISPE).

Active and Passive Systems

Distributing pharmaceuticals and vaccines across Australia, or beyond, will require a multi-faceted approach that may include active refrigerated systems and passive TPS.

Active systems require motors, mechanical parts, batteries and/or fans for the system to work.  If one or more of these active components malfunction or run out of power, then a temperature excursion will inevitably happen.

Passive systems require a refrigerant pack and an insulated container.  They will exhibit typical behaviour for a certain time period in certain ambient conditions.  After that a temperature excursion will inevitably happen.

Not all shipments are suited to an “active” refrigerated truck and not all shipments are suited to a “passive” TPS.  Each solution has strengths and weakness which are better suited to some scenarios rather than others.

Refrigerants

There are many types of refrigerants that are used in TPS.  The main ones are listed below:

  • Dry-ice

 

Which one is best suited is dependant upon:

  • the target temperature that the pharmaceuticals/vaccines must be maintained at
  • the likely duration of the transport (plus a contingency)
  • the likely thermal challenge exhibited by the ambient environment and
  • the cost/importance of the medicines

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Blog:

  • Australian Manufacturer Ready to Aid the Distribution of the COVID-19 Vaccine
  • How Temperature Packaging Systems Work
  • WHO’s Annex 9 Supplement 7: Qualification of Temperature Controlled Storage Areas.

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