ASSESSMENT AND COMPARISON OF THERMAL PERFORMANCES OF PHARMACEUTICALS TRANSPORT ENVELOPES FROM PHARMACIES TO HOME

摘要

For a long time, the pharmacies give transport envelopes for drugs, say isotherm, to their patients withrnthe aim of ensure the cold chain from pharmacy to home. During the third day of cold chain of healthrnproducts in Lyon in November 2012, a work group from commission AFF/SFSTP (AssociationrnFrançaise du Froid/ Société Françaises des Sciences et Techniques Pharmaceutiques) studied thernsubject and revealed the thermal inefficiency about these envelopes The French pharmacy council,rnwho was there, has chosen Cemafroid to lead a technical group in order to work on envelopes forrntemperature- sensitive drugs deliveries in a pharmacy. This article makes an assessment of the use ofrnenvelopes and diagnoses of their thermal performance with a protocol of qualification in order to testrnthe time/temperature maintain once of envelopes for drugs from 2℃ to 8℃.rnThe purpose is to show the results of a comparison study about thermal performances of thesernenvelopes, to suggest improvements and good practices to ensure temperature-sensitive drugsrntransport follows the required temperatures conditions.