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c/coldchain·submitted 10 months ago by u/sterile_field_steph

[Question] how do you actually verify data logger

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Trying to get a straight answer on this: how do you actually verify data logger. On loggers, since I was sceptical and then bought one. A small transit logger costs a fraction of a vial and records the whole journey rather than the moment of arrival. What I learned from three of them: my lane is far more stable than…

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u/anya_rautio69 points·10 months ago

Kept a vial at room temperature for eleven days by accident. Tested it out of guilt. It was fine.

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u/sterile_field_stephOP25 points·10 months ago

a logger costs less than a vial and answers the question permanently

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u/low_appetite_lisa14 points·10 months ago

Agreed. The dry powder is the robust state; it is the solution that needs the care.

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u/isabela_nilsen33 points·10 months ago

Kept a vial at room temperature for eleven days by accident.

anya_rautio is right that the pack failing is not the material failing. Two separate claims.

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u/creatine_and_cardio25 points·10 months ago

You cannot infer potency from a temperature record. The record tells you what happened to the box; only a test tells you what happened to the material.

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u/priya_ogunleye-3 points·10 months ago

Do you know what storage condition the stability statement covers?

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u/intent_to_treat1 point·10 months ago

Gel packs are designed for a duty cycle. A liquid pack at the end of a longer-than-expected transit is a pack behaving as specified, not evidence of an excursion in the vial.

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u/ireland_drugs_pay54 points·10 months ago

Lyophilisation removes the water that drives most degradation pathways. That is why the dry cake is comparatively robust and the reconstituted solution is not.

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