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Evidence of Vaccine Freezing in the Cold Chain: Literature Review

This document describes the serious risk of freezing vaccines and provides examples of freezing in the cold chain.

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  • English

Publication year

2003

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PATH

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Repository

Categories

  • Supply chain & logistics

Topic references

FREEZE-PREVENTION-EXAMPLES

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Evaluation of an outside-the-cold-chain vaccine delivery strategy in remote regions of western ChinaRen Q, Xiong H, Li Y, Xu R, Zhu C2009Journal articleEnglish
Evidence of Vaccine Freezing in the Cold Chain: Literature ReviewPATH2003RepositoryEnglish
Frequent exposure to suboptimal temperatures in vaccine cold-chain system in India: results of temperature monitoring in 10 statesAmbujam Nair Kapoor, Balraj Singh, Devegowda Ravishankar, Kalyanranjan Mukhopadhyay, Kamlesh Parmar, Karumanagounder Kolanda Swamy, Manoj V. Murhekar, Pramit Ghosh, Raja Dodum, Rajesh Sisodiya, Ramaratnam Subramanian, Sailaja Bitragunta, Somorjit Ningombam, Srihari Dutta, Tana Takum, Varsha SinghJournal articleEnglish
Investigating cold-chain system and efficacy of vaccines reaching the end user in Turkey and related regulationsA. Yekta Özer, Hamza ÖzdemirJournal articleEnglish
Use of cool water packs to prevent freezing during vaccine transportation at the country levelBirhan Altay, Denis Maire, Peter Bollen, Serge Ganivet, Stephane Guichard, Umit Kartoglu, Venkat AiyerJournal articleEnglish
Visual Indicators on Vaccine Boxes as Early Warning Tools to Identify Potential Freeze DamageDiane Tipping, Jillian Wood, Maria C. Chernock, Ronald Angoff2015Journal articleEnglish