lisgriggs Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 If I purchase ThermoSafe insulated shipping boxes that are prequalified at room temp for 24 hours do I need to validate them for shipping apheresis products? The model is E38PLATE. The website says that a "Qualification Report" is included.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Our Quality people would probably say that you do need to validate them, in case they were damaged in transit from the manufacturer. I make no comment about this myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Eye Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Yes. I agree with your quality people. We do the same for very same reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RR1 Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 We do an initial validation on one box only to see how extremes of external temperature and internal packing arrangements affects the internal box temperature.All other boxes are then checked for signs of damage etc, we do not validate each box, though a temperature logger is placed with every consignment.I have recently acquired some transport boxes that according to the manufacturer were meant to maintain temps between 2-6'C for upto 72hrs; however, when we tested this the best we could achieve was around 48hrs- quite a difference! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L106 Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Yes, I think you should validate them.Donna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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