Sanjay Vyas, corporate vice president & Global SBU head of Clinical Trial Supplies & Logistics, PAREXEL International discusses the challenges in transporting certain medicines and how advancements in technology are making things easier.
Medicines Transportation
A growing number of drugs have a stringent stability profile and, with that, a certain best-practice temperature range that must be adhered to. Temperature monitoring of medication has become increasingly important; regulation changes have imposed an increase in what must be monitored, and an increase in complex, fragile, highly valuable medication has added to the difficulty of this task.
For any Investigation Medical Product (IMP) to be stored and administered safely, clinical trial sponsors must control the temperature conditions of the IMP throughout the supply chain and this means maintaining full visibility throughout the transportation process.