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A growing trend in the pharmaceutical industry is the development of more complex and fragile products, like biologicals, chemical mixtures, and large molecules (COVID-19 vaccines are an example of this trend).  These products generally must follow a standard operating procedure (SOP) that requires more stringent temperature controls to prevent them from degrading or deactivating during…

If vaccine and pharmacy medication storage reaches the wrong temperature, several things can happen – rendering them less effective than intended or even chemically altered, causing inadvertent patient harm. Because of this risk, strict pharmacy temperature requirements have been put into place to ensure medications are manufactured, transported, and stored properly before they reach the…