Apart from the availability of Auto Disable Syringes and Safety Boxes,
Immunization programs around the world do require good quality vaccines.
The maintenance of quality of vaccines is not just determined by the vaccines
manufacturer's production high quality output alone, but it is also depending
on the management of the correct vaccines storage temperature during transportation
and storage. Therefore, since 2003, WHO and UNICEF have produced its Joint
Statement on Effective Vaccines Store Management (EVSM) guidelines.
It is unarguably that the immunization programs do require special devices that are approved and recommended by WHO and UNICEF to monitor and control the correct set of temperature setting of vaccines storage periodically, which are called; the Cold Chain Monitoring Devices that include Freeze Prevention Monitoring Devices and/or Time Temperature Data Loggers.
Apart from utilization of monitoring vaccine storage temperature, these devices also can be implemented for the time temperature monitoring of blood transportation, blood bank storage management, temperature sensitive drugs and reagents as well as the diverse utilization in the agricultural, farming, aquaculture and shipping industries.
Berlinger
& Co. AG
Medibest is an authorized Sole Distributor of Berlinger & Co. AG, Switzerland the WHO/UNICEF approved supplier and manufacturer for Vaccine Freeze Prevention and Cold Chain Monitoring Devices of WHO approved and recommended Freeze-tag®, Q-tag 2R® and Fridge-tag® that are manufactured within the guideline of WHO Standard EN3 and ISO 9001:2000.
Freeze-tag®
Freeze-tag® is an electronic Vaccines Freeze Prevention Monitoring Device that is very user friendly, economical, with highest degree of accuracy and quality. It has been approved and recommended, by WHO for EVSM, and has been included in the WHO Product Information Sheets (PIS) with WHO PIS Code E6/49. It has the best temperature measuring accuracy in its class of +/-0.3°C which is considered well meeting the accuracy requirement of WHO. The irreversible alarm condition is triggered after 60 minutes having temperatures below 0°C. The device serves as a very important tool to acknowledge that the freeze-sensitive vaccines storage or transportation have or have not been exposed to freezing condition.
Q-tag 2/2R®
Q-tag 2® is a high quality, cannot
be manipulated, easy to handle single use temperature control on electronic
basis with temperature alarm monitor for transportation of temperature sensitive
goods such as vaccines, drugs, blood and blood products, reagents, etcetera,
while Q-tag 2R® is the re-settable version that can be reused
using a special Q-tag re-start device. It is also a product that was intended
to cater the requirements of WHO in EVSM. It is a WHO
approved product with WHO PIS Code E6/50.
Fridge-tag®
Fridge-tag® functions to reliably monitor the environmental temperature of sensitive goods, which includes vaccines, pharmaceuticals and blood products, during storage in refrigerators or cold rooms. Due to its big visual display, all relevant data can be checked effortlessly at any time and temperature violations are easily discovered immediately. The development of this device is specially intended to cater the needs of WHO in its EVSM programs around the world.
Remonsys Limited, UK , together with its subsidiary company Visitemp Limited, UK , appointed Medibest as their Sole Distributor for their wide ranges of Time Temperature Data Loggers for Cold Chain Monitoring System.
TINY TTM™
TINY TTM™ is a simple high quality reusable time temperature data logger and is approved and recommended, by WHO for vaccines cold chain monitoring. It has been included in the WHO Product Information Sheets (PIS) with WHO PIS Code E6/43 and has been utilized for EVSM programs globally. The main advantage of using TINY TTM™ is; the users can have a tangible recorded data of temperatures for a pre-determined time intervals in the forms of downloadable and printable tables or charts. In addition, it also serves perfectly for validation and calibration purposes of the performance of cold chains.
MULTiLOG™
MULTiLOG™ is a very sophisticated, very accurate, high quality multi-channel temperature monitoring system that is controlled through a desktop computer that allows a real-time observation of the condition and performance of the cold storage. It provides continuous, independent temperature records simultaneously from multiple locations with automatic logging, downloading and storage as well as a choice of display models. It also acts as warning system as it has an audible alarm to warn the cold storage operators and automatic dial-out unit to call these operators outside of the working hours when the violation of pre-set limits of temperatures is detected. It has been approved and recommended by WHO for EVSM programs. Its WHO Product Information Sheets (PIS) Code is E6/47.
VISiTEMP™
VISiTEMP™ is a reusable and an accurate informative visual approach to temperature data logging. With visual approach, this time/temperature data logger ensures that violations can be viewed on side and action can be taken directly without the need to wait for downloaded reports. However, the data can be downloaded for further investigation or permanent record if required.
